“I made a decision for them”: Thinking about her children, Shakira admits that she defrauded the state treasury, the singer reveals in a statement, what is the fine she will pay if she does not go to prison?

Colombian singer Shakira ended her legal battle this Monday, November 20, 2023, when she appeared in court in Barcelona to answer charges of tax fraud against the Treasury brought against her by Spanish prosecutors.

Shakira pleaded guilty: What was the Colombian singer accused of?

The 46-year-old from Barranquilla, wearing a smart pink suit and her signature flowing hair, arrived at the courthouse accompanied by her lawyer and pleaded guilty to tax evasion between 2012 and 2014, when she was already living in Spain. .

Shakira, who just received three Latin Grammy awards in Seville, issued a statement explaining the reasons for her agreement with the prosecution and mentioning the role of her children in this decision, writes El País.

What does Shakira’s deal consist of?

The “Acróstica” translator agreed to pay a fine of 7.3 million euros ($7.9 million) and refused to continue to defend her innocence, which would have meant facing a possible sentence of more than eight years in prison and a fine of 23.5 million euros ($25.6 million) explains the Spanish portal.

According to the same media, Shakira also agreed with the prosecution to pay another fine of 432,000 euros (about 487,000 dollars) in order to avoid a three-year prison sentence. Thus, the singer will not have to serve a sentence for her tax violations.

The singer’s defense argued that she was not a tax resident in Spain during the years under investigation and therefore had no obligation to pay taxes on her income. But the prosecution believed that Shakira pretended to live in other countries when in reality she was staying in Barcelona with her then-partner, former soccer player Gerard Piqué, and their two children, Milan and Sasha.

Shakira herself admitted in her statement that her children were the main reason for the settlement with the Spanish judiciary.

“I have to pick my battles Now the most important thing for me is to do everything so that my children live a full life and focus on what is really important: watching them grow up and spending time with them,” the artist explained in a document issued by her legal team. .

In addition, he stated that he wanted to prevent his children from suffering the “torment” of seeing their mother on trial. – They asked me themselves – admitted the singer who arrived in Spain accompanied by her two little ones aged 10 and eight, and they were her support in the most difficult moments.

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The Colombian woman, who, according to Telecinac, had a chance of getting a trial, decided that it was not worth continuing the legal process and therefore chose peace.

“It’s not a victory to succeed if the price is so many years taken away from your life.” That’s why he preferred to “agree, finish and forget this episode of his life, looking to the future,” he said.

Shakira chooses her family

A few hours after learning of her legal settlement, the singer posted her acceptance speech at the Grammy Awards on her Instagram profile, where she dedicated her recognition to her children and reminded them that now she will only focus on the future. “A wolf like me always chooses family,” read the text that accompanied her post.

“I want to dedicate this award to my children, Milan and Saša, because I promised them that I would be happy, that they would have a mother who would laugh with all her laughter. I’m already thinking about all the songs I’ll compose, all the tours I’ll do, the audience I’ll share it with. Because as a friend says, ‘there is nothing in the past. “Only the future is remembered,” he said. (AND)

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