Shortly after relocating to the US, Shakira was hit with another tax fraud case from the Spanish government.

The Hips Don’t Lie singer has been accused of using corporate networks in tax havens to avoid paying 6.6 million € (£5.7 million) in 2018.

In late July, officials confirmed that a court near Barcelona had agreed to investigate the Colombian singer-songwriter for a second case.

Shakira already had a case against her for £12.5 million tax fraud in 2012, 2013 and 2014, with the 46-year-old set to stand trial for six counts in November.

The prosecutor is asking for eight years imprisonment and a multi-million euro fine should Shakira be found guilty of the charges.

Today the amount of money they are accusing her of defrauding as part of their new allegations against the mum-of-two was made public.

A complaint from the Prosecutor’s Office states that the Waka Waka singer was ‘moved by the desire not to pay taxes on all of her income and to stop paying what was due to her into the State’s coffers’.

It further alleges that she ‘consciously and voluntarily presented false personal income tax and IP declarations’, according to news source, El Mundo.

Shakira denies all wrongdoing levied at her by the court in Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona.

She previously claimed she was being ‘persecuted’ and accused the Spanish Treasury of using ‘unacceptable methods to damage her reputation and force her to come to a settlement agreement.’

Shakira now lives in Miami but was said to have resided in Spain for over 183 days in the calendar years 2012, 2013, and 2014, therefore liable to pay taxes in the country.

Previously a tax resident in the Bahamas, the Whenever Wherever singer only registered as a full-time tax resident in Spain in 2015 despite starting to date ex Gerard Pique five years earlier.

Spanish tax inspectors reportedly spent more than a year checking up on Shakira, even visiting her favourite hairdressers in Barcelona and checking her social media to try to show she spent most of the three years in dispute in Spain.

They concluded she had spent 242 days in Spain in 2012, 212 days in 2013 and 243 days in the country in 2014 before indicting her with six counts of tax fraud for those three years.

In the charges, the prosecutors claim the singer ‘failed to declare income’ to the tune of 12.5 million dollars, from the El Dorado tour.

This payment is said to have been received as an advance in 2011 and accrued in2018.

On top of this Shakira also ‘failed to declare income for a higher amount to 2.5 million euros’ for what it calls ‘two intermediary companies’ GGT and AC.

Other expense claims for amounts greater than 3 million euros plus personal expenses and ‘unjustified expenses’ for amounts exceeding 500,000 euros are all listed in the prosecutor’s complaint.

When the charges originally surfaced, Shakira’s legal representatives slammed the claims saying she had ‘not received any formal notification of the Prosecutor’s complaint that has been, according to the media, filed for the fiscal year 2018’.

They added: ‘Once again, as has been the case for the past several years, it is through the media that the singer has found out about the filing of this lawsuit, proving the public and reputational pressure to which she is being subjected.

‘The singer’s legal team will not make any comments until the notification reaches them through the official and legally established channels. As it is publicly known, and as the Spanish Treasury was officially notified, Shakira is now living in Miami, so she must be notified personally at her new address in strict accordance with the provisions of the Law.

‘As she has already affirmed on numerous occasions, Shakira defends having always acted in accordance with the law and under the advice of the best tax experts. She is now focused on her life as an artist in Miami and is confident that there will be a favourable resolution of her tax issues.’

The wealth tax in Spain is an annual tax payable on the total net value of assets held on December 31 and residents must pay tax on their worldwide assets.

Her tax trial, to take place over 12 sessions, has been marked to begin on November 20 and finish on December 14.

Metro has contacted Shakira’s representatives for comment on the new accusations.

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