On 07/29/2022 at 10:17
Singer Shakira in May 2022 at the Cannes celebration.
The Colombian singer is accused of tax evasion in Spain, where the prosecution requested this Friday more than eight years in jail against a child.
Will Shakira go to jail? The Barcelona public prosecutor's office announced this Friday that it would seek more than eight years in prison for tax evasion against the Colombian star
The singer, who claims child blamelessness, refused Wednesday to seal an agreement with the prosecution and want to go to trial.
According to his lawyers, the possibility of reaching an agreement remains open until the opening of the trial before a Barcelona council while the formal dismissal in equity of the 45-year-old star has not been pronounced.
"Absolutely certain of child blamelessness"
"Absolutely certain of child blamelessness" (...) Shakira does not accept an agreement "with the prosecution" and decides to continue "the procedure until the trial, indicated her advice in a dispatch, affirming that the singer is "confident that equity will prove him right".
Denouncing a "total infringement of his rights" and "abusive methods" on the part of the prosecution, Shakira affirms in this report that he "stubbornly insists on claiming the money collected during my international tours and (the show) The Voice", of which she was a sworn in the United States, at a time when "I was not residing in Spain".
Shakira also argues that she has already paid 17.2 million euros to the Spanish tax authorities and therefore has "no debt to the Treasury for many years".
According to the prosecution, Shakira had been living in Spain since 2011, when her connection with FC Barcelona footballer Gerard Pique was made public, but had maintained her tax residence in the Bahamas Islands, considered a monetary paradise, until 2015. The couple, who have two children, announced their separation in June.