Shakira, Julio Iglesias, Di Maria and Mascherano

Shakira continued to open offshore companies in tax havens while the Treasury was already investigating his finances, Spanish newspaper La Sexta published. The Colombian singer, who has lived in Barcelona for ten years, faces a tax evasion charge amounting to € 14.5 million.

The Pandora Papers contain documentation from three companies he owns: two already known to the Spanish treasury and a third that had not been disclosed, called Titania Management, of which the pop star appears to be the sole administrator and beneficiary.

Julio Iglesias has opened at least 20 offshore companies in the Virgin Islands, according to Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color, which is part of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (IJCJ). Some of them have been used to buy properties for over $ 111 million in Miami’s most exclusive area of ​​Indian Creek Island.

Argentinian footballers Ángel Di María and Javier Mascherano also feature in the revelations of Pandora Papers.

The first of them managed more than eight million euros between 2013 and 2017, before joining Real Madrid, through Sunpex Corporation Inc, which channeled advertising revenue and managed investments in financial assets from an account. banking in Switzerland.

In 2017, Di María admitted to having committed a tax evasion in front of the Spanish Treasury for the funds he managed through Sunpex but during the period 2011-2013, a crime for which he paid a fine of two million euros .

Argentinian technicians Mauricio Pochettino He is also listed as a beneficiary of an offshore company, such as the Catalan Pep Guardiola who, according to El País, took advantage of a tax amnesty to regularize his account in Andorra, where he had deposited his salaries from the time he played. in Qatar.