Shakira faces trial in Spain for tax fraud – People – Culture

A few weeks after the Colombian singer will leave Barcelona, city ​​where he lived more than 10 years along with who until last year was his partner, the former Spanish soccer player Gerard Piqué.

As reported by the EFE news agency, Shakira was summoned to trial on November 20, the month where 12 sessions will be held with more than 200 witnessesin order to solve this case.

Let us remember that the Colombian is accused by the Spanish Treasury of tax evasion between the years 2012, 2013 and 2014for an alleged tax fraud of 14.5 million euros.

However, Shakira’s group of lawyers has indicated that in those years, the artist did not reside for more than six months a year, which is the limit allowed to be in Spain without presenting the income statement.

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The Spanish Prosecutor claims that the Colombian interpreter pay a million-dollar fine of 24.5 million euros and a punishment of eight years and two months in prison.

Shakira has repeatedly rejected the ‘offer’ from the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office to reduce the years in prison he intendsfor which the trial has been extended.

ALEJANDRA HERNANDEZ TORRES
DIGITAL SCOPE WRITING
TIME

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