Shakira tells a judge she made a pilot land the plane in Barcelona just to kiss Gerard Piqué

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Shakira’s trial for tax fraud draws nearer. While the Colombian singer maintains that she has fulfilled all of her obligations in Spain, the Prosecutor’s Office accuses her of personal income tax evasion and wealth tax between 2012 and 2014 and requests eight years in prison and a fine of 23.8 million euros.

However, Shakira defends that the extended stays in Spain that the public ministry attributes to her since 2011 were incompatible with her artistic career, leading her to travel continuously worldwide.

El País had access to Shakira’s defense brief, which asserts that during the period in which she was being investigated, she was “a nomad, a person without roots or stability.”She explains that until 2015, she did not live stably in Spain and could not, therefore, be treated as a tax resident.

She recalls that until then, she “was everywhere, living on a plane more than any pilot.” During the 80-minute statement that took place on June 6, 2019, in the courts of Esplugues de Llobregat, the singer admits that her visits to Barcelona began in 2011 when she began dating Gerard Piqué but assures that the relationship was just beginning and that her trips to the Catalan capital were frequent but punctual.