Said court did not impose any precautionary measure until the trial.
At the end of July, the Prosecutor’s Office requested more than eight years in prison and a fine of about 24 million euros (23.1 million dollars) for Shakira, under accusation of having defrauded 14.5 million euros (14 million dollars) to the Spanish treasury between 2012 and 2014.
The Prosecutor’s Office accuses Shakira of having used a “corporate framework” created years before not to pay taxes in Spain in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014despite the fact that he already resided in the country for more than the 183 days a year stipulated by law.
The 45-year-old artist, known for international hits like “Waka Waka”, “Hips don’t lie” or “Blackmail”, has always denied the accusations.
It is agreed to open the oral trial before the Provincial Court of Barcelona (…) against Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, as the alleged author
“These are false accusations,” Shakira said in an interview published on September 21 by Elle magazine, in which she said she had “the confidence of having done things in the most correct and transparent way from day one.”
The Public Ministry and the singer’s defense sought an agreement to avoid trial, but in July Shakira renounced this possibility, showing confidence that “justice will prove her right”, according to her legal representatives in Barcelona, where the star.
“The Prosecutor’s Office has endeavored to collect the money earned in [sus] international tours and in ‘The Voice'”, the American television program in which she was a judge, in a period in which “she was not yet a resident in Spain”, denounced her representatives at that time.