2023-11-24 14:00:17
The Colombian singer Shakira deposited in court the 6.6 million euros that the Prosecutor’s Office claims for tax fraud in 2018, in the second case she has opened for crimes once morest the Spanish Treasury.
According to what legal sources informed EFE, the artist handed over last August in an investigative court in Esplugues de Llobregat, near Barcelona (Spain), the sum supposedly defrauded, while she is waiting for the magistrate to summon her to testify as under investigation. for this second open case.
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The amount consigned by the singer, according to El Periódico de Catalunya, would allow her to benefit from a mitigating measure to compensate for the damage in the event that she ends up convicted once more for tax fraud, having returned the money supposedly evaded.
This mitigating circumstance was what led to the agreement that the artist reached last Monday with the Prosecutor’s Office and the private accusations made by the Spanish Tax Agency and the Regional Government of Catalonia to avoid jail, in exchange for a million-dollar fine, in her first trial. for tax fraud in Spain.
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Shakira accepted a fine of nearly 7.8 million euros following admitting in court that she defrauded the Treasury of 14.5 million between 2012 and 2014, with a three-year prison sentence for six crimes once morest the treasury that she will not have to serve. agree to that payment.
Even before the Prosecutor’s Office filed its complaint, Shakira had already returned the 14.5 million defrauded to the Treasury, which did not prevent the public ministry from continuing with the criminal actions.
Shakira agrees to a million-dollar fine
The singer has another process open in the contentious-administrative chamber of the Spanish National Court for an alleged tax fraud committed in 2011, for which she has already disbursed some 60 million euros while still waiting for the appeal she presented to be resolved. once morest tax settlement.
In the new complaint being investigated by the Esplugues de Llobregat court, the Prosecutor’s Office accuses the singer of defrauding 5.3 million from the 2018 income tax return, corresponding to income from her tour that year and the transfer of her rights. intellectuals, plus another 773,600 euros in wealth tax for the nearly 12 million it owns in real estate and financial assets.
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To defraud the treasury, the Prosecutor’s Office maintains, the defendant used a corporate framework and presented “untrue statements” of the income tax, in which she omitted to declare income and deducted expenses that were not appropriate, thereby managing to reduce the tax to pay to the Treasury.
EFE
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