{"id":95125,"date":"2023-11-20T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=95125"},"modified":"2023-11-20T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:05:09","slug":"singer-shakira-will-pay-a-millionaires-fine-to-avoid-going-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/singer-shakira-will-pay-a-millionaires-fine-to-avoid-going-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Shakira will pay a millionaire fine to avoid going to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This November 20, 2023, the Colombian singer <strong>Shakira<\/strong> appeared before the Barcelona hearing to accept the charges of <strong>tax fraud<\/strong> during the period 2012-2014. Thanks to her <strong>confession<\/strong>, she was able to reach an agreement indicating that she will pay a million-dollar fine to not go to prison, and they will put an end to this process.<\/p>\n<p>She will have to pay a total amount of 432 thousand euros (470 thousand dollars) to avoid being sent to <strong>prison<\/strong> and will also have to <strong>pay a fine<\/strong> of 7.3 million euros (7.8 million dollars), given this situation the singer shared a statement to explain the reasons that led her to make the decision to plead <strong>guilty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlanetReportHQ\/status\/1726628756704432190\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd34 BREAKING NEWS | \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf4 \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8<br \/>\ud83d\udd38\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Shakira?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Shakira<\/a> will pay a fine of seven million euros to avoid prison. With a &quot;yes&quot; and a &quot;thank you,&quot; she admitted to defrauding 14.5 million euros to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Spanish?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Spanish<\/a> Tax Agency between 2012 and 2014. After weeks of negotiations, the Colombian singer has\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VCg97Lx2bW\">pic.twitter.com\/VCg97Lx2bW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Planet Report HQ (@PlanetReportHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlanetReportHQ\/status\/1726628756704432190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I felt ready to face a trial and defend my <strong>innocence<\/strong> and my lawyers were convinced that we would have a winning trial, however I have to choose my battles and the most important one for me now is to do everything so that my children live a full life<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Shakira considers that accepting the improved <strong>agreement<\/strong> that changed 8 years in prison for 36 months and with the option of being replaced for a large amount of money and would put an end to this extremely long process was a good decision, since she will be able to enjoy her children and her career freely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This November 20, 2023, the Colombian singer Shakira appeared before the Barcelona hearing to accept the charges of tax fraud during the period 2012-2014. Thanks to her confession, she was able to reach an agreement indicating that she will pay a million-dollar fine to not go to prison, and they will put an end to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":95133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,72,4],"tags":[1539],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-latin","9":"category-pop","10":"tag-shakira"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95125"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=95125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}