Shakira testifies in Miami for her second case against the Treasury after admitting the first fraud

More than seven thousand kilometers and by video call. This is how he declared Shakira this Thursday in the second case opened against the Spanish Treasury. Accused of an alleged tax crime in fiscal year 2018, the former Gerard Piqué has denied that she used a “corporate network” in tax havens “moved by her desire not to pay taxes on all of her income”, as maintained by the Prosecutor's Office, which estimates the alleged fraud at six million euros.

This is Shakira's second case against the Public Prosecutor's Office. The first was resolved last November, when the interpreter of Waka-Waka admitted to having defrauded 14.5 million euros during the years 2012 and 2014 and agreed to pay a fine of 7.3 million euros. Despite his statement, he sent a forceful statement through social networks in which he attacked the Prosecutor's Office, reiterating his innocence and justifying the agreement “based on personal, emotional and sentimental reasons that have nothing to do with legal issues.” . He also added that his children “had asked him.”

Only four months after closing the agreement, Shakira once again sits in the dock for the same reason: alleged tax fraud. This time, in 2018. According to the Prosecutor's Office, the singer “channeled capital movements” generated by their work through a company in Malta and several companies in the British Virgin Islands instead of doing it in Spain, where he lived. He neither declared the Personal Income Tax (26.7 million taxable base) nor the Wealth Tax (773,600 euros), 'saving' some 5.3 million that should have gone to the state coffers. They also claim that he deducted from his companies expenses that belonged to the personal sphere, such as private trips by private jet (150,483 euros) and plane tickets for his two children and his educator. According to The countrythe artist's defense has spoken of “pressure” and has requested that the case be archived.

Last August, the woman from Barranquilla contributed the supposedly defrauded amount in court as compensation for the damage, a gesture that allows her to benefit from a lesser sentence (in case she is convicted) or even reach an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office, as It happened on the first occasion.