Shakira has once again disbursed a million-dollar amount as payment demanded by the Barcelona Prosecutor's Office in a new complaint she filed last July. The Colombian artist thus recorded 6.6 million euros, which is added to the more than 100 million euros that the singer would have spent on her problems with the Treasury.
According to judicial sources consulted by El Periódico, the singer would have deposited this amount as a gesture of "good will" to settle her debts with the Spanish Tax Agency, without meaning that there will not be a future trial or that she could plead guilty or innocent to the singer.
The artist's payment figure to the Spanish coffers continues to grow: 65 million for non-payment of taxes in 2011 (a process that is already being appealed before the National Court), approximately 25 million - plus all the fines that must also be paid - after her pact with the prosecution and private accusations, for fraud against the Treasury during the years 2012 and 2014. Added to all this money are these 6.6 million euros, which he delivered some time ago in the Esplugues de Llobregat court that instructs the new complaint from the Barcelona Prosecutor's Office.
A gesture of "good will" that would mean, if necessary, a possible reduction in the eventual penalty for having paid in advance the allegedly defrauded fee - an alleged fraud this time amounts to 5.3 million in personal income tax and another approximately 700,000 euros, plus expenses, for the Wealth Tax.
Shakira has not been called to testify in this process before the Barcelona Court. A process in which the singer is accused of defrauding her treasury through a "network of companies" that would have led her to, supposedly, "simulate" the transfer of her rights to instrumental companies.
The Barcelona Prosecutor's Office recalls that, during the 2018 financial year, the artist lived in Barcelona with her then partner, Gerard Piqué, and their two children, so she had to pay all of her taxes in Spain. However, he is accused of having omitted part of his income - especially the millionaire payments from his tour, El Dorado - for which he obtained more than 37 million euros in profits, plus tens of millions in advertising - allegedly deriving the payment to this network of companies located in countries where taxes are barely paid and "high opacity" such as Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the British Virgin Islands, Malta, Panama and Liechtenstein.
The main of these companies, AC, is based in Luxembourg and received income from the transfer of the artist's music rights - according to a long-range contract signed with Live Nation in 2008. In the 2018 financial year, Shakira declared only 75% of its income, arguing that the company had "significant assets", but none of that turned out to be true.
According to the prosecution's complaint, the company never carried out any activity, since its most important asset was precisely Shakira's musical rights, transferred "formally" and through a series of "simulated" contracts. The artist would have transferred her rights without wishing to transfer them, maintaining them at all times.
