A Spanish prosecutor is seeking a prison term of eight years for Colombian superstar Shakira over a €14.5 million tax fraud case, a prosecutor's office document showed on Friday.
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The singer, who has sold more than 80 million records worldwide with hits such as "Hips Don't Lie", earlier this week rejected a settlement offer from the prosecutor's office to close the case.
She is accused of failing to pay taxes between 2012 and 2014, a period in which Shakira says she did not live in Spain. The prosecutor's document asserts that Shakira was ordinarily resident in Spain between 2012 and 2014 and in May 2012 bought a house in Barcelona which became a family home for herself, her partner and their son born in Spain in 2013.
It asked for an eight-year prison sentence and a fine of more than €23 million ($23.5 million) should she be found guilty. No date for a trial has been set yet.
