Spanish court docket formally sends Shakira to trial for tax fraud
Shakira failed to 14.5 million euros in income taxes
A Spanish court on Tuesday officially ordered Colombian superstar Shakira to face trial on accusations that she didn't pay 14.Five million euros ($14.31 million) in profits taxes, a court docket document launched on Tuesday showed.
The 'Hips
Don't Lie' singer, 45, whose complete call is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll,
rejected in July a deal to settle the case, which meant she would ought to
stand trial in a case that could see her sent to jail for 8 year
The Esplugues de Llobregat court on Tuesday confirmed the trial will move in advance on a date nonetheless to be announced.
The
prosecutor is seeking an 8-yr prison term for the singer, who's accused of
failing to pay taxes between 2012 and 2014, a duration wherein she said she
become leading a "nomadic existence" because of her work.
"The
order to send Shakira to trial is just some other step in any complaints of
this type. The situation has not modified and the whole thing maintains as
regular. Shakira's legal defence will do its activity through offering its
written arguments at the proper time," a announcement from her attorneys
said.
Shakira
vowed closing week to fight what she claimed have been "false"
accusations by using Spanish authorities and delivered that she had already
paid what the Spanish tax workplace stated she owed earlier than they filed a
lawsuit.
