Shakira will sit on the dock. The Esplugues de Llobregat judge, who ordered the case, sent the singer to court on six tax charges related to his alleged evasion of personal income tax and wealth tax between 2012 and 2014. This Tuesday’s decision is final and the singer cannot appeal.
In her indictment, Prosecutor Carmen Martín Aragon seeks eight years and a month in prison and a total fine of 23.8m euros for the alleged defraud of Colombian singer Shakira (Isabel Mebarak Ripoll) between 2012 and 2012. 2014. artist from Barranquilla He deposited the amount of debt with the Treasury and streamlined his position with the Tax Office, paying thousands of more euros to pay the corresponding taxes. Therefore, the prosecution applies the high-quality damage repair mitigation method, which reduces the criminal claim as a whole.
Initially, negotiations were initiated between the artist’s defense and the prosecution. reach an agreement. Public indictment even offered to reduce his prison sentence (heavy due to the number of crimes attributed to him) with a fine. But in the end, the negotiations did not come to a conclusion, and the Colombian singer refused any deals. Despite this refusal, the settlement could arrive one minute before Shakira’s undated oral hearing takes place.
institutional framework
The prosecution argues that Shakira committed six fraudulent crimes tax authorities Individuals committed due to non-payment of income and wealth tax in 2012, 2013 and 2014 are sentenced to imprisonment from one year to one year and six months. The prosecution alleges that the artist defrauded a network of companies with consequences in tax havens and pretended to live abroad while in Barcelona with football player Gerard Piqué, with whom he has now left.
Shakira in the understanding of the prosecutor habitually lived between 2012 and 2014first in a house in Barcelona, then in a house in Esplugues de Llobregat, which was bought through a company with his partner Gerard Piqué. The singer was out of Spain at that time “for professional reasons”A very short time outside the United States, where he participated in ‘La Voz’.
Public accusation states in his article that he is in our country most of the time and that it takes more than the 183 days prescribed by law to consider that a person is a habitual resident of Spain and therefore must pay his taxes there. Specifically, the defendant effectively remained in our country: 242 days in 2012, 212 days in 2013 and 243 days in 2014. Absenteeism qualifies as “occasional” according to tax regulations. Artist’s defense attorneys believe these calculations are wrong.