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Police detain parents of two-year-old who tested positive for cocaine in Spain

Spanish authorities have arrested the mother and father of a two-year old boy who had traces of drugs in his urine.

Published: 1 September 2017 14:41 CEST
Police detain parents of two-year-old who tested positive for cocaine in Spain
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The child was admitted intoxicated to the Virgen de Valme hospital in Sevilla on August 26th. Subsequent tests on the child found traces of methadone and cocaine in his urine, according to a police statement. 

Both parents were arrested by Spanish police on August 30th. 

The father has previous convictions for drug trafficking and domestic abuse, reports El Mundo.

Both the two-year-old, who was discharged, and his two brothers, five and six years old, were placed in the custody of their paternal grandparents.

READ MORE: Spanish police seize 5.5 tonnes of cocaine in ‘one of biggest busts' ever

 

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Spain prosecutors seek to close Shakira’s second tax fraud case

Spanish prosecutors on Wednesday moved to dismiss a tax fraud case against Shakira just months after opening proceedings against the Colombian superstar over unpaid taxes of €6.6 million.

Published: 8 May 2024 12:35 CEST
Spain prosecutors seek to close Shakira's second tax fraud case

“The Barcelona provincial prosecutor’s office for economic crimes has requested that the proceedings against Shakira be closed … for the 2018 tax year,” the prosecutors office said in a statement, pointing to “insufficient evidence”.

Prosecutors opened the case in July, accusing the so-called Queen of Latin Pop of using a network of companies, some of them based in tax havens, to cheat the tax office out of €6.6 million in 2018, including interest and adjustments.

A month later, the singer paid €6.6 million to settle the debt, her agent told AFP.

In November, the singer reached a last-minute settlement with prosecutors to avoid trial in another tax fraud case involving income she earned between 2012 and 2014.

Prosecutors had accused her of defrauding the Spanish state of €14.5 million in charges she denied, saying she only moved to Spain full-time in 2015.

As part of the deal, she agreed to pay a fine of €7.3 million, equal to 50 percent of the amount of unpaid tax, along with a €432,000 fine, raising the total to nearly €7.8 million.

Now 47, the singer lives in Miami where she moved in April 2023 with her two sons after a bitter split from former Barcelona football star Gerard Piqué.

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