Shakira Is All Smiles While Rocking A Wetsuit At The Beach With Her 2 Sons Amidst Tax Fraud Case

Late November isn’t usually a clip to spell surfing successful the Northern Hemisphere, but erstwhile you’re Shakira, you marque clip for the beach. On Wednesday (Nov. 30), Shakira, 45, took her sons – Milan, 9, and Sasha, 7 – to the formation successful Cantabria, Spain. The vocalist sported a navy-colored wetsuit to support herself lukewarm successful the chilly water waters, portion her boys dressed successful achromatic wetsuits erstwhile they were retired successful the waves.

Shakira and her kids (Lagencia Press / BACKGRID)

This formation travel comes amidst Shakira’s ongoing $14 cardinal taxation fraud case. The Colombian vocalist is accused of “failing to wage income taxes to the Spanish authorities betwixt 2012 and 2014,” per The New York Times. Prosecutors claimed Shakira spent much than fractional of each twelvemonth successful Spain betwixt 2012 and 2014 and allegedly utilized a antecedently established “corporate framework” to fell income and assets during those years.

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Spanish instrumentality says that those who unrecorded six months – 183 days oregon much – successful the state indispensable wage taxes. Spanish home taxation instrumentality uses 3 criteria to see if a idiosyncratic is simply a nonmigratory oregon not: “physical presence, the halfway of economical interests, and the determination of a spouse and children,” per NYT. For implicit a decade, Shakira was progressive with Barcelona FC subordinate Gerard Piqué, until they announced their split successful June.

Shakira has denied each the allegations and has reportedly paid the 14.5 cardinal Euros that the Spanish Treasury claimed she owed. “First of all, I didn’t walk 183 days per twelvemonth astatine that clip astatine all,” Shakira said successful an Elle interview. “I was engaged fulfilling my nonrecreational commitments astir the world. Second, I’ve paid everything they claimed I owed, adjacent earlier they filed a lawsuit. So arsenic of today, I beryllium zero to them. And finally, I was advised by 1 of the 4 biggest taxation specializer firms successful the world, PricewaterhouseCoopers, truthful I was assured that I was doing things correctly and transparently from time one.

“Shakira is simply a payer who has ever shown impeccable taxation behaviour and has ne'er had taxation problems successful immoderate different jurisdiction,” her ineligible squad said successful a Nov. 25 statement. “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.”