Shakira’s life has changed a lot in the last year with her media separation from Gerard Piqué and her multiple successes in the musical field with messages for the former soccer player and, ultimately, for her children. But there is one thing that does not change for now and that is that the Colombian singer continues with open cases in the Spanish courts for alleged tax fraud in exercises that go back more than ten years. And it is that it will be this year when the one from Barranquilla tries to solve her problems with the Treasury on two occasions.
Five years ago, the investigation against Shakira began for a possible crime of fraud against the Tax Agency. The Spanish authorities defend that the artist was a tax resident in Spain since 2011 and that, therefore, she had to pay taxes in Spain, while she maintains that she did not establish her residence in our country until 2015. Therefore, the objective is clear: to determine if in During the years under investigation, Shakira spent more than 183 days in Spain, which would automatically mean that Shakira should have paid taxes to the Treasury. Of course, as published by the magazine Holathere are two open cases: an administrative one corresponding to the year 2011 and a criminal one that includes the years corresponding to 2012, 2013 and 2014. The difference between one and the other, following the information provided by the same medium, is that the 2011 case would have prescribed and you cannot go through criminal proceedings.
If convicted in the first of the cases, Shakira would face a fine, while the criminal process could also be punished with a fine but also with a sentence of eight years and two months in prison.
A maximum of 60 days in Spain in 2011
Shakira has defended her innocence at all times and has refused to reach an agreement, but she is facing a really serious process and the first cause also involves the highest request: 60 million euros. That is why the Colombian and her team have presented 31 unpublished photographs to which she has accessed Hola and that they would show that in 2011 he was in dozens of places around the world as part of his tour, which would confirm that he was not a resident of Spain at that time.
The images place her in Abu Dhabi, Bologna, Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Croatia, Munich, Beirut, Mexico, Minsk, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Paris, Haiti, Washington, Las Vegas, Rabat, Genoa, Buenos Aires, Colombia and Puerto Rico, among many other places.
Shakira and her legal team maintain that in 2011 she spent a maximum of 60 days in Spain and that her sentimental relationship with Gerard Piqué was not yet consolidated enough to settle with him in Barcelona. She defends that there was no link with Spain except for some concerts.
