Piqué snatches from Shakira the lawyer who was handling her case for tax crimes

The comings and goings of lawyers in the relationship between Gerard Piqué and Shakira have not ended with the agreement reached by both at dawn last Tuesday on the custody of the two children they have in common.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
09 November 2022 Wednesday 22:44
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Piqué snatches from Shakira the lawyer who was handling her case for tax crimes

The comings and goings of lawyers in the relationship between Gerard Piqué and Shakira have not ended with the agreement reached by both at dawn last Tuesday on the custody of the two children they have in common. The former soccer player has signed the lawyer who led the singer's defense for six alleged crimes against public finances, David Velázquez, to represent his company Kosmos in the case being investigated by a court in Majadahonda on the organization of the last Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia, as sources close to him have revealed.

After considering the manifest incompatibility that currently exists between the two clients, Velázquez would have given up continuing to defend the artist. The criminal, a magistrate of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia on leave of absence, had taken the reins of the negotiation with the accusations, in which they came to offer the singer the substitution of all prison sentences for a fine, and had been commissioned the design of the strategy and the drafting of the defense brief.

There could also be the circumstance that the parties cited Piqué himself during the process, a fact that would abound in this professional incompatibility.

From now on, Shakira's representation will fall to the lawyer Pau Molins, who was already part of the defense team, once the former magistrate gives him permission in the coming days. The new legal representative of the singer in this case must present before the end of November before the court of Esplugues de Llobregat that instructs the case the defense brief, in which it is argued that Shakira did not decide to establish her residence in Spain until the year 2015, when her second child was born and her first went to school.

Until then, and despite maintaining a stable relationship with Gerard Piqué –whom she met at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa–, the singer would not have resided more than 183 days a year in Spain, a necessary legal requirement for her to be considered legally tax resident and must pay taxes in the country, according to the argument of his defense. The team of lawyers also points out that despite the fact that the player did reside in Barcelona, ​​his future at Barça was not resolved.

The head of the court instructing the case agreed on September 27 to open an oral trial against the singer for six alleged crimes against public finances, two for each of the fiscal years 2012, 2012 and 2014. The prosecution For this reason, he asks for sentences of 8 years and two months in prison and estimates the alleged fraud at 14.5 million, corresponding to personal income tax and wealth tax, which the Generalitat collects, in person as part of the accusation. Likewise, the public ministry requests a fine of 23.7 million and 18 years and one month without receiving tax incentives.