MADRID (AP) — Colombian pop singer Shakira has opted to visit trial as an alternative of accepting a deal introduced via Spanish prosecutors to settle allegations she defrauded Spain’s executive of 14.5 million euros ($15 million) in taxes, her public family members staff stated Wednesday.
Shakira, 45, “trusts her innocence and chooses to depart the problem within the fingers of the regulation,” the PR company Llorente y Cuenca stated in a remark.
Spanish prosecutors charged the singer in 2018 with failing to pay 14.5 million euros in taxes on source of revenue earned between 2012 and 2014. She faces a conceivable advantageous and jail sentence, if discovered accountable of tax evasion.
There have been no fast main points to be had at the deal prosecutors introduced. No date for the trial has been set.
Shakira’s public family members company stated she has deposited the volume she is claimed to owe with the Spanish Tax Company and has no pending tax money owed.
The case hinges on the place she lived all through 2012-14. Prosecutors allege it used to be most commonly in Spain despite the fact that Shakira’s professional place of dwelling used to be within the Bahamas.
Shakira, whose complete identify is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, has two kids with Barcelona football megastar Gerard Pique. The couple used to reside in combination in Barcelona however just lately ended their 11-year dating.
