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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no "Euro legal system."  She's dealing with the Spanish legal system.  [b]The issue is whether she lied about her residency, and was living in Spain. [/b] Different countries have different laws about tax fraud. [/quote]

This. It's just like when New Yorkers claim to live in Florida for tax purposes and then get caught.

Except the Spanish government is a lot more powerful than Albany. Federal and U.S. state laws give a lot more privacy protections to the taxpayer. The Spanish government is essentially arguing that her actual residence was in Spain during those years she was raising her kids in Spain with Pique. The Spanish government will absolutely have access to her passport information and when she entered/left both Spain and the EU.

I call BS on her living in the Bahamas. It's just a tax shelter.

Further, she was a mega-star long before she met Pique. They probably did not marry because they already had their own tax and accounting systems in place to minimize their liabilities. Getting married would've been a very expensive proposition for both of them from a tax and accounting perspective. It's a lot more flexible for two ultra-HNW individuals to remain legally "single."[/quote]

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