Colombian superstar, Shakira will pay a fine of over €7.3 million ($7.98 million) as part of a deal with Spanish prosecutors to avoid trial for tax fraud, a Barcelona court said Monday. Prosecutors had accused the superstar of defrauding the Spanish state of around €14.5 million ($15.7 million) on income earned between 2012 and 2014, charges Shakira had denied, saying …

A Spanish judge in Barcelona, Esplugues de Llobregat, has ordered a second investigation against Shakira for alleged tax fraud. VOA1 reported that the investigation comes after Judge Marco Jesús Juberías argued that Shakira living in Spain for over 200 days from 2012–2014 makes her eligible and liable to pay $16.2 million in unpaid taxes in the foreign country. Judge Juberías …