Shakira’s defense filed a note with the Court of Investigation No. 2 Esplugues de Llobregat, where her residence is located, to clearly the name of the singer and in a very critical tone with the Spanish State Treasury, which he accuses of “excessive tax collection efforts” and “unacceptable purpose” use his figure for “demonstrative purposes”. Colombian artist faces 8 years and 2 months in prison for six alleged tax fraud offenses. Your new legal team he changed the tone of his defense to be more critical of the Spanish Treasury, and claims that the artist did not live permanently in Spain until the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015, when she had her second child with former Barça player Gerard Pique.

Shakira at the Elvis premiere afterparty

In the brief protection of the artist highlights his “philanthropic activities” and his constant travels this caused her to “travel to many countries” during the years she is accused of cheating the tax agency. In addition, it claims that the Colombian has evidence that during this time he retained his permanent residence in the Bahamas., evidence that the prosecutor’s office did not consider valid, because it considers it insufficient to prove its version. The defense also claims that during the investigation into its “discredit” your right to privacy has been violatednoting that the investigators in charge of her case contacted the places where the singer visited in order to have evidence of her stay in Spain, as well as her presumption of innocence.

Shakira claims she has paid €104 million in taxes worldwide since 2011. of which 90 million are in Spain alone, and was very harsh with “the methods of the treasury after paying and harassing even for many years, during which she did not even spend 60 days in Spain.” In addition, the defense alleges that the artist paid the amount claimed voluntarily and They accuse the prosecutor’s office of launching a “media campaign” against her for the sole purpose of “compelling” the Colombian “to plead guilty and accept the charges” despite “her innocence”.

Shakira performing at Super Bowl 2020

The prosecution alleges, despite Shakira’s defense, that during the aforementioned period of time the artist spent more than 183 days a year in SpainTherefore, it is believed that her tax residence became in the territory, and not in the Bahamas, where she claims to have resided during 2012, 2013 and 2014. In addition, the letter also states that the artist, when he decided to permanently settle in Barcelona with his partner, reported it “directly” to the tax office, who accepted him “without discussion, thus suggesting that up to this point he had not resided in our country.” Since then the artist he would “scrupulously” pay taxes in Spain even when he was not the “center of economic interests” of the singer.

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The crime that Shakira faced is judging her for allegedly cheating 14.5 million euros between 2012 and 2014., in which the prosecutor’s office is convinced that the artist lived in Spain. The State Attorney charges him with three crimes against the IRPF and Generalitat declarations, three more crimes against the Ministry of Finance in the property tax declaration, all of them between 2012 and 2014. For this reason, Shakira faces up to 8 years and 2 months in prisonwhich his lawyers try to avoid in every possible way.