After the singer refused to reach an agreement, the Prosecutor's Office formalized her accusation against Shakira in which they asked her for eight years and two months in prison for having committed six serious crimes against the Spanish public treasury.
Last July, the Prosecutor's Office formalized its accusation against Shakira, charging her with six crimes against the public treasury for defrauding 14.5 million euros between 2012 and 2014, by avoiding the payment of personal income tax and wealth tax, pretending that He did not reside in Spain.
After trying to reach an agreement with the Colombian singer and she rejected any type of agreement while maintaining her innocence, the treasury asked her for eight years and two months in prison. A prison sentence that has been reduced thanks to a mitigating circumstance: Shakira made 17.2 million euros available to the court, 14.5 million destined to pay the amount they were asking for, in addition to three million in interest.
Shakira defends her innocence
In an official statement, Shakira explained that she renounced the agreement with the Prosecutor's Office because she "fully trusts in her innocence and she does not accept an agreement." "The Prosecutor's Office has insisted on collecting the money earned on my international tours and on The Voice when I was not yet a resident in Spain, and they have resorted to improper means to pressure, just as they do daily and unfairly with thousands of taxpayers with for-profit purposes," he added.
Will Shakira go to jail?
At this point, the next step is to set a date to hold the trial and decide whether Shakira will finally go to prison or not. Carlos Cruzado, president of the Union of Treasury Technicians (Gestha), has spoken on this topic.
"It is difficult for us to see it because the most likely thing is that Shakira's lawyers will recommend that she close an agreement before the hearing. They still have time and at the moment they agree on the fine, which will be what they are discussing right now, there will be an agreement," he explained to Better late.
The expert has assured that it would be very risky for Shakira to go directly to trial because if it rules in favor of the accusation, her entry into prison would be quite likely: "There will be an agreement because we have already seen the agreement of the prosecution of the Prosecutor's Office, which even taking into account the qualified mitigating circumstance of damage repair, given that it had paid those 14.5 million euros, considers that they are six serious crimes and that they have aggravating factors that compensate in some way for this and we see that the penalty is more of eight years in prison. Therefore, going to trial means risking a sentence that cannot be suspended and having to go to prison."
