The court sits Shakira on the bench for six crimes against the Treasury

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The singer faces more than eight years in prison

The singer, in a recent image.EFE

Shakira does not avoid the bench. The Court of Instruction number 2 of Esplugues de Llobregat agrees to open a trial against the singer Colombian by six crimes against the Treasury Public “with the aggravating circumstances of the amount of fraud and use of interposed legal entities”. The decision comes after receiving the indictments of the Prosecutor, the State Attorney and the Generalitat in which they consider Shakira responsible for this fraud.

Specifically, he committed the crimes allegedly by not present the liquidation income tax and Wealth Tax for 2012, 2013 and 2014 with an amount that amounts to about 14.5 million euros. For these crimes, the Prosecutor asks eight years in prison for Shakira and almost 24 million euros fine for these crimes against the Public Treasury. Therefore, he must sit on the bench in a trial to be held in the coming months in the Court of Barcelona.

in Bahamas

The singer affirmed when the accusation was known that suffer a persecution and that “for many years there has been no pending debt” with the Tax Agency, since shortly after the criminal process began in 2018 He paid 17.2 million that they claimed. However, the Prosecutor’s Office maintains that the Colombian singer allegedly did not present the liquidation of the Income Tax of Individuals (IRPF) and Wealth Tax (IP) corresponding to 2012, 2013 and 2014, which caused economic damage to the Treasury of 12.3 million for personal income tax and 2.19 million for the wealth tax to the Tax Agency of Catalonia.

The public prosecution believes that the singer must pay taxes in Spanish territory since he resided in the country for more than the minimum six months established by law, although the artist assured that this was not the case, despite the fact that it was when started his relationship with the player of FC Barcelona Gerard Piqu, and that he paid taxes on the income from his professional activity in the Bahamas, where he had his official residence. Now, Shakira must sit on the bench to defend his innocence.

After knowing this judicial decision, Shakira’s environment indicated that “the order to open the oral trial is one more step in any usual process of these characteristics. The situation has not changed and everything follows its normal course.” Shakira’s lawyers will do “her job by delivering her arguments at the right time, which is with the defense brief.”

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The court sits Shakira on the bench for six crimes against the Treasury