Shakira deposited 6.6 million euros in court to settle a debt with the Spanish Treasury for alleged tax fraud committed in 2018.
According to what legal sources informed EFE, the artist handed over the supposedly defrauded sum last August to an investigative court in Esplugues de Llobregat, near Barcelona (Spain), while she is waiting for the magistrate to summon her to testify as under investigation. for this second open case.
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 again 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.
Shakira accepted a fine of nearly 7.8 million euros after 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 against 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.
