Shakira

You know what else is illegal? Tax fraud. On July 27, the Colombian singer rejected a settlement deal offered by Spanish prosecutors in the case of her alleged ...

The only question is if she’ll swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth on a Bible or on her hips. Shakira will now go to trial, and according to the According to AP, prosecutors are seeking to sentence her with eight years and two months in jail as well as a fine of €24 million. However, Shakira listed her primary residence as a private island in the Bahamas, which she co-owns with Roger Waters. They’d bought it in 2011 with the intent of turning it into a luxury artist retreat, but it seems like the Spanish government believes the most significant structure she built on it was … a tax shelter.

The Colombian star has opted to go to trial after rejecting a settlement deal from the prosecutor's office to close the case earlier this week.

Shakira rejected a settlement deal from the prosecutor's office to close the case earlier this week and has opted to go to trial instead. Shakira's representatives referred to a previous statement sent out on Wednesday saying she "is fully confident of her innocence" and that she considers the case "a total violation of her rights". The Colombian star has opted to go to trial after rejecting a settlement deal from the prosecutor's office to close the case earlier this week.

Spanish prosecutors have said they will seek a prison sentence of more than eight years against global music star Shakira, after she rejected a plea deal on ...

The couple, who share two children, announced their separation in June. She claimed prosecutors were "insisting on claiming money earned during my international tours and the show The Voice" on which she was a judge in the United States, when she was "not yet resident in Spain". Shakira, who has sold over 60 million albums, rejected a plea deal on Wednesday, saying in a statement through her lawyers that she was "absolutely certain of her innocence" and had decided to let the case go to court, "confident" that her innocence would be proven.

Shakira, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, is charged with failing to pay the Spanish government €14.5 million in taxes between 2012 and 2014.

A trial date has yet to be set. Prosecutors in Barcelona have alleged the Grammy winner spent more than half of each year between 2012 and 2014 in Spain and should have paid taxes in the country. Shakira’s public relations team said the singer has always fulfilled her tax duties.

The singer has been accused of defrauding the Spanish tax office out of €14.5 million on income earned between 2012 and 2014.

The couple, who have two children together, announced their separation in June. The prosecution has cited records of visits to hair salons, a pregnancy clinic and a rented recording studio in the city as evidence that Shakira was living in Barcelona. Spanish prosecutors have asked for a prison sentence of more than eight years and a fine of nearly €24 million against Colombian singer Shakira if she is convicted in a trial for alleged tax fraud.

Prosecutors in Spain say they will ask a court to sentence Colombian pop star Shakira to eight years and two months in prison if she is convicted in her ...

The prosecutors said they would also seek a fine of 24 million euros ($24 million). Prosecutors in Barcelona have alleged the Grammy winner spent more than half of each year between 2012 and 2014 in Spain and should have paid taxes in the country. A trial date has yet to be set.

Prosecutors in the case are reportedly seeking a fine of €24 million in addition to the sentence.

Conversely, the artist’s publicists insist Shakira has paid the money she allegedly owes to the Spanish Tax Agency in addition to €3 million in interest, and has no pending debts. Despite her timeless assertion regarding the honesty of her hips, prosecutors in Spain are moving forward with charges stating Shakira has been dishonest about her taxes. Prosecutors claim that Shakira lived mostly in Spain during those years even though her primary residence was listed as The Bahamas—in 2021, Spanish judge Marco Juberías wrote that his three-year probe into Shakira’s tax history reflected “ sufficient evidence of criminality” warranting a trial.

A Spanish prosecutor is seeking a prison term of eight years for Colombian superstar Shakira over a €14.5 million tax fraud case, a prosecutor's office ...

Shakira (45) and Piqué (35) have been together since 2011 and have two sons. The latest development in the tax case comes a month after Shakira and her husband, FC Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué, announced they were separating. The prosecutor’s document, seen by Reuters, asserts that Shakira was ordinarily resident in Spain between 2012 and 2014 and in May 2012 bought a house in Barcelona which became a family home for herself, her partner and their son born in Spain in 2013.

Authorities say the Columbian spent at least half the year in Spain in 2012, 2013 and 2014, when she was married to an FC Barcelona football player.

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The singer is accused of not paying nearly $15 million taxes from 2012-2014. The singer says she has already paid about $17.5 million to the Spanish tax ...

Yet in July of last year, a judge ruled that there was enough “evidence of criminality” for the singer, who is the star and EP of NBC’s Dancing With Myself reality competition, to be tried. The duo announced they were separating last month. The superstar says she has already paid about $17.5 million to the Spanish tax office to settle her obligation.

Shakira could also be hit with around $24 million in fines as prosecutors in Spain push ahead with their tax fraud case against the Colombian pop star.

The investigations connected her to offshore companies in tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands and Malta. But according to Spanish investigators, Shakira allegedly spent more than 200 days in the country in each of those three years. The tax fraud charges hinge on where Shakira lived from 2012 to 2014.