However, according to the state agency, the music star’s team rejected the last offer presented by the public ministry and which would have meant a reduction in her sentence but, also, the admission of guilt by the artist. Her representatives issued a statement in which they again defended the innocence of the diva, as well as her full confidence that the judicial system will support her version of her events.

Shakira and her lawyers have always maintained that she acted in accordance with the law, explaining that the taxes she did not pay in Spain during the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 were paid in those countries to which her taxes corresponded. However, both the investigating judge in her case and the Barcelona Provincial Court ruled that there was “more than enough evidence” to prosecute the artist, who certainly lived in Barcelona during those years, along with her ex-partner Gerard Piqué and the two children they have in common, Milan and Sasha.

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