“The Barcelona provincial prosecutor’s workplace for financial crimes has requested that the proceedings towards Shakira be closed … for the 2018 tax 12 months,” the prosecutors workplace mentioned in an announcement, pointing to “inadequate proof”.
Prosecutors opened the case in July, accusing the so-called Queen of Latin Pop of utilizing a community of corporations, a few of them based mostly in tax havens, to cheat the tax workplace out of €6.6 million in 2018, together with curiosity and changes.
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A month later, the singer paid €6.6 million to settle the debt, her agent advised AFP.
In November, the singer reached a last-minute settlement with prosecutors to keep away from trial in one other tax fraud case involving revenue she earned between 2012 and 2014.
Prosecutors had accused her of defrauding the Spanish state of €14.5 million in prices she denied, saying she solely moved to Spain full-time in 2015.
As a part of the deal, she agreed to pay a fantastic of €7.3 million, equal to 50 % of the quantity of unpaid tax, together with a €432,000 fantastic, elevating the full to almost €7.8 million.
Now 47, the singer lives in Miami the place she moved in April 2023 together with her two sons after a bitter cut up from former Barcelona soccer star Gerard Piqué.