(Madrid) Sentenced Monday to pay a fine of 7.3 million euros (10.8 million) for tax evasion in Spain, the global singing star Shakira paid 6.6 million euros (9.8 million ) more in August as part of another procedure, we learned on Friday from those around him.
A court on the outskirts of Barcelona announced in July the launch of new proceedings against the 46-year-old Colombian artist for tax fraud dating back to 2018 and amounting to 6.6 million, once late payment interest and regularization fees.
The entire sum was paid by the singer at the end of August to the courts, the agency representing Shakira told AFP, confirming information from El Periodico.
According to this Catalan daily, the payment of these 6.6 million, “requested by the court”, “does not prejudge either the guilt or the innocence of the singer” in this affair, but is “an additional demonstration of her will to repay any debts owed to the Spanish tax authorities”.
Contacted by AFP, the judicial authorities of Catalonia did not react immediately.
The announcement of the payment of this sum comes after the agreement sealed on Monday between the Spanish prosecutor’s office and the interpreter of Waka waka and Hips don’t lie in order to avoid a trial for tax fraud in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
In exchange for the suspension of the trial, Shakira received a fine of more than 7.3 million euros corresponding to “50%” of the amount of the fraud. She had also already paid 17.45 million euros (26 million) to the tax authorities to regularize her situation in this matter.
The singer, who moved with her children to Miami following her separation last year from former Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué, is also in the sights of the Spanish tax authorities for 2011.
