The popular singer Shakira He testified again this Thursday before the Investigative Court number 2 of Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona) in the second open case for fraud after the closure of the first, for which it accepted a fine of 7.8 million euros last November. Shakira acknowledged before the court that she defrauded the Treasury of 14.5 million between 2012 and 2014, thanks to a pact with the prosecution that avoided prison and saved a long trial.
In the new complaint investigated by the Esplugues de Llobregat court, the Prosecutor’s Office accuses the singer of defraud 5.3 million from the 2018 income tax return, corresponding to income from his tour that year and from the transfer of his intellectual rights, plus another 773,600 euros in wealth tax for the about 12 million that it owns in real estate and financial assets.
To defraud the treasury, the Prosecutor’s Office maintains, the defendant used a corporate framework and presented “untruthful declarations” of income tax, in which he omitted to declare income and deducted expenses that were not applicable, thereby managing to reduce the amount payable to the Treasury.
The Colombian singer deposited in court the 6.6 million euros that the Prosecutor’s Office claims for tax fraud, at that time still waiting for the magistrate to summon her to testify as being investigated by this second open case.
In addition, the artist has another process open in the contentious-administrative chamber of the Spanish National Court for an alleged fiscal fraud committed in 2011, for which it has already disbursed some 60 million euros while still waiting for the appeal it filed against the tax settlement.
Source: Lasexta
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