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(Reuters) — The Spanish Prosecutor’s Office requested more than eight years in prison for the Colombian superstar Shakira for a case of tax fraud of 14.5 million euros, according to a document from the Prosecutor’s Office published on Friday.
The singer, who has sold more than 80 million records worldwide with hits like “Hips Don’t Lie,” earlier this week rejected a plea deal from prosecutors to close the case.
He is accused of not having paid taxes between 2012 and 2014, a period in which Shakira claims not to have lived in Spain.
The document from the Prosecutor’s Office, to which Reuters had access, ensures that Shakira habitually resided in Spain between 2012 and 2014 and that in May 2012 she bought a house in Barcelona that became a family home for her, her partner and her son born in Spain in 2013.
The Prosecutor’s Office requested a sentence of eight years in prison and a fine of more than 23 million euros (23.5 million dollars) if found guilty. A trial date has not yet been set.
When asked to comment, representatives from Shakira They referred to a previous statement sent on Wednesday in which he stated that he “fully trusts his innocence” and that he considers the case “a total violation of his rights”.
Terms of the previous settlement offer have not been disclosed.
The 45-year-old singer, considered the queen of Latin pop, said that she initially paid the 17.2 million euros that the Spanish Tax Agency said she owed and affirms that she has no pending debt with the treasury.
The latest development in the tax case comes a month after Shakira and her husband, FC Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué, announced their separation. Shakira, 45, and Piqué, 35, have been together since 2011 and have two children.
