Shakira Asserts ‘Full Innocence’ In Scathing Response To $14m Spanish Tax Fraud Case

Shakira isn’t backing down. The “Hips Don’t Lie” songstress, 45, deed backmost astatine Spanish authorities connected Nov. 25, calling their $14 cardinal taxation fraud lawsuit against her a full sham. Shakira declared her innocence portion accusing authorities of having “no coagulated evidence” against her successful a connection from her ineligible squad shared with the Daily Mail.

“Shakira is simply a payer who has ever shown impeccable taxation behaviour and has ne'er had taxation problems successful immoderate different jurisdiction,” the connection read. “With nary coagulated grounds to enactment the charges against her, she has been fiercely persecuted successful the transgression and media spheres utilizing unacceptable methods to harm her estimation and unit her to travel to a colony agreement.”

Shakira claims Spanish authorities person nary grounds successful their taxation fraud lawsuit against here. (KCS Presse / MEGA)

The aforesaid time she filed ineligible documents successful her defense. Shakira claims she is not a full-time nonmigratory of the state from 2012 to 2014, truthful is exempt from having to wage income taxes. According to Spanish law, she would beryllium required to wage taxes if she spends 183 days oregon much determination successful a azygous year, according to TMZ. The prima went connected to assertion that she did wage $10,141,075 successful taxes to the U.S. authorities during the play successful question, erstwhile she was moving successful the States arsenic a justice connected The Voice.

The connection went connected with immoderate words from the popular prima herself. She told the public, “It is unacceptable that successful its accusation the taxation authorities are not respecting the ineligible certainty that indispensable beryllium guaranteed to immoderate taxpayer, not my cardinal rights. In my case, they person violated my close to privateness and the presumption of innocence, basal rights of immoderate citizen.”

It went connected to explicate wherefore Shakira was acceptable to instrumentality the lawsuit to trial. (As of Nov. 25, 2022, a tribunal day had yet to beryllium scheduled.) “Shakira wishes to explicit her implicit assurance successful the independency of the Spanish justness strategy and her steadfast condemnation that, aft the trial, her afloat innocence volition prevail,” the connection read.

Shakira’s ineligible play isn’t the lone happening connected her plate. The prima has besides been dealing with the fallout from her divided from longtime spouse Gerard Pique. Breaking her silence astir her caller struggles successful a September screen communicative for Elle magazine, the vocalist called it the “darkest hr of my life.”