Multiple outlets have reported that Shakira — yes, Shakira — is facing jail time in Spain over allegations of tax fraud. How did we get here, you ask?
Photo: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images On Friday, multiple outlets reported that Shakira — yes, Shakira — is facing jail time in Spain over allegations of tax fraud. How did we get here, you ask? Back in 2018, Spanish prosecutors charged Shakira with tax evasion, alleging that the singer had failed to pay more than $16 million in taxes on income she earned between 2012 and 2014. . Shakira categorically denied the prosecutors’ allegations.
Now the case is again picking up steam. Earlier this week, representatives for Shakira announced that the singer had decided to go to trial instead of accepting a deal offered by prosecutors to settle allegations that she defrauded Spain’s government, with the singer’s PR firm saying she “trusts her innocence and chooses to leave the issue in the hands of the law.
Shakira rejected prosecutors’ offer to settle the case. Per the Associated Press, no details were released about the terms of the deal prosecutors offered to Shakira, but on Wednesday, her PR firm announced she had rejected it and planned to go to trial, reiterating that the singer had deposited whatever she allegedly owed with the Spanish Tax Agency and had no outstanding tax debts.
No date has been set for Shakira’s trial. Per Reuters, Shakira maintains her innocence, denying that she lived in Spain during the two years in question. Representatives for Shakira say she is “fully confident of her innocence” and finds the case to be “a total violation of her rights.” A date has not yet been set for the trial.
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