BARCELONA- Pop star Shakira is facing new problems with Spain’s finance ministry after a court near Barcelona said on Tuesday it had authorized the opening of an investigation into a second case of alleged tax fraud by the Colombian singer.
Shakira was already awaiting indefinite trial for alleged non-payment of $13.9 million in income taxes between 2012 and 2014. The artist has denied any infringement.
Now a Spanish judge has granted prosecutors a request to investigate two possible cases of Shakira’s tax fraud in 2018. The court said it had no information on how much money was involved.
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The two cases were tried in a court in the town of Esplugues de Llobregat, near Barcelona.
The first case concerns Shakira’s place of residence between 2012 and 2014. Barcelona prosecutors claim the multiple Grammy winner spent more than half of that time in Spain and should have paid taxes there, despite her official residence in the Bahamas lay .
Shakira, whose real name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, has had ties to Spain since she began a relationship with now-retired soccer player Gerard Piqué. The couple, who have two children, lived together in Barcelona until last year, when they ended their relationship after 11 years.
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For the past decade, Spanish authorities have prosecuted football stars like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for not paying all taxes due. Both were convicted of tax evasion but escaped jail because the law allows the judge to exempt people with no criminal record from serving sentences under two years.