Shakira to face a prison sentence for a fraud case? According to a  prosecutor's office document obtained by Reuters, a Spanish prosecutor has sought a prison sentence of up to eight years for over a 14.5 million euros tax fraud case, the singer is accused of defrauding the Spanish government. If the Waka Waka singer is proven guilty she will also have to pay a fine of more than 23 million euros (USD 23.5 million).

The news came after Shakira rejected a plea deal from the prosecutors to settle the case. For those who don’t know, Shakira allegedly didn't pay taxes between 2012 to 2014, but the singer claims she didn't live in Spain during that period. The prosecutor's document further asserted that the singer was ordinarily resident in Spain during that time while in May 2012, she allegedly bought a house in Barcelona that became a family home for Shakira, former partner FC Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué and their son Milan, who was born in Spain in 2013. The ex-couple also shares a son Sasha, born in 2015.

However, Shakira’s legal team has maintained that the singer is confident of her innocence and that the tax fraud case is a violation of her rights. She also claimed that she had paid 17.2 million euros, which is what the Spanish tax office had said she owed, whilst claiming that she had no outstanding debt with the tax authorities.

No date for the trial has been set yet. Shakira’s tax records came into the limelight after she and Gerard Piqué announced they were separating in June.

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