Colombian singer and songwriter Shakira has been in the headlines always for her songs, and fashion statements. But this time she has made it to the headlines over a legal case over taxation charges. Which made the netizens wonder what happened that she has been charged for the legal case.
Well, Shakira was accused of cheating the Spain government by using a series of companies which were in her name and also had evidence where she used the government to show the tax and manipulate the government. It stated that she had a tax debt of 6.6 million dollars in 2018, according to reports. But the pop singer already made clear that she had cleared all the tax debt and settled them to the Spain government.
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Government’s stance towards the pop- singer
The government cannot arrest anyone until and unless there is any strong evidence against the victim. The officials stated that they had evidence against her which pointed to a criminal fraud case.
During the contempt of court, the court said that “there was no evidence that had a criminal case”, also they said that she is “intent to defraud”. There were many “irregularities” in the tax payment, but the court gave the statement in the favour of Shakira.
Further, Defense attorney Paul Moulis stated that Shakira was “satisfied with the acknowledgement of the court that she didn’t have a Criminal fraud case”. This put an end to all the statements which were against her, and ended the fraudulent case that was against her.
Shakira’s official statement
Shakira stated to the reporters that all the statements that were released by the taxation government against her were proved false and there was calm, but the singer revealed that there is still the administration of the dispute that has to be resolved.
Earlier Shakira was in court for the same, where she was looking for an 8-year Jail sentence as she faced a trial over the Spanish taxation bills from 2012- 2014. However, the singer dismissed this saying this was baseless as she moved to Spain in 2015. There was a three-week trial that was planned, but she never appeared because she agreed to pay the fine of USD 7.8 Million, on top of the $17.45 million which she had already paid when she was staying there.
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