Pop singer Shakira to face tax trial after rejecting deal offered by Spanish prosecutors

Shakira ‘trusts her innocence and chooses to leave the issue in the hands of the law,’ her public relations team said Wednesday

Colombian pop singer Shakira has opted to go to trial instead of accepting a deal offered by Spanish prosecutors to settle allegations she defrauded Spain’s government of €14.5-million in taxes, her public relations team said Wednesday.

Spanish prosecutors charged the singer in 2018 with failing to pay €14.5-million in taxes on income earned between 2012 and 2014. She faces a possible fine and prison sentence, if found guilty of tax evasion. Shakira’s public relations firm said she has deposited the amount she is said to owe with the Spanish Tax Agency and has no pending tax debts.

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