“Now I played the boyfriend. This is part of what I have been suffering for years … there has been neither frames, parallel networks, nor anything that is being tried from the Moncloa.” It was the first reaction of the president of the community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, hours after Eldiario.es published exclusively on March 12, 2024 that the Prosecutor's Office had denounced her partner for fiscal fraud. This Monday, a year and a half later, a judge in Madrid sent the businessman Alberto González Amador to defraud the Treasury 350,951 euros using a plot of false invoices.
In all this time, Ayuso, the PP and the Government of the Community of Madrid have tried to place González Amador in the center of an alleged institutional collusion against the regional president commanded by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez and his related press. “My partner is suffering a wild fiscal inspection (…). It is an inspection of the Treasury taken from quicio, neither more nor less. Here there is no plot, nor screen corporations nor anything (…). It is a particular citizen who is being besieged for all the power of a state because it is my partner,” Ayuso abounded on March 13, 2024, a day after the first revelation on the fiscal fraud of the businessman.
Actually, the Tax Agency opened an inspection to its partner that ended up deriving in a complaint of the Prosecutor's Office and in a judicial case that approaches the trial phase by considering “extremely striking” that in 2020 its turnover grew by almost two million – even 2.3 million – and, nevertheless, pay half of taxes that in 2019.
The investigation revealed that the businessman triggered his income during the pandemic: he won about two million euros doing an intermediary with a company without employees. And that when he had to pay taxes he used a framework of false invoices and screen companies to impute expenses non -existent to his company, Maxwell Cremona. What he achieved, in practice, was to drastically reduce his bill of the Corporation Tax. The businessman presented false invoices of eight companies without workers, reflected business expenses that never occurred – like the sale of vaccines at the coast of ivory – and used his two companies to transfer income and pay less taxes.
After that ball, the floor of the center of Madrid was bought in which he lives with Ayuso. In 2022 he delivered 350,000 euros of entry, an almost identical amount to which he had disappointed the Treasury for the two previous exercises. Eldiario.es also revealed that both also enjoy the luxury attic that is just above their home. That attic is in the name of a company of the businessman's lawyer, who pays a rental of 5,000 euros per month, as both in judicial headquarters have recognized.
A “particular citizen”
Despite the clear indications collected by the complaint of the Prosecutor's Office and the Tax Report, Ayuso, the PP and senior positions of the Community of Madrid assumed the defense of the businessman. And they did it by lying for several weeks, in which they insisted on the theory that everything was a persecution of the State against a “private citizen” who had not committed any illegality.
They even tried to install the idea that it was the Treasury that owed him “almost 600,000 euros.” Actually, González Amador tried to remedy his deception of 2020 and 2021 to the Treasury entering the public coffers the amounts owed in 2022, when he was already investigated. That money, that Ayuso's couple paid without anyone asking for it, is what explains that alleged “debt” of the Treasury that the president presumes. When González Amador verified that he was not going to lessen the punishment, he requested the return. From there come the “almost 600,000 euros.”
In that signaling strategy, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Ayuso's right hand in the community and historical figure of the PP political communication since the first years of José María Aznar. The advisor personally assumed the task of defending González Amador, whom he had saved on the agenda as “Alberto Quirón.”
And he did even resorting to the threat against the newspaper that had revealed the fraud of his boss's couple. “We are going to crush you. You are going to have to close. Idiots. Whatever they give you,” he wrote to one of the journalists of Eldiario.es after this media publish the second exclusive about González Amador, who revealed that the businessman had charged two million euros in commissions for mask contracts.
Rodríguez also disseminated information in the form of a bulge to manipulate public opinion in favor of González Amador. He told dozens of journalists that the prosecutor of the case had offered a pact to the businessman, but that he had later removed it by “orders” of the dome. Again the same strategy: the supposed state operation. That bulge is also at the origin of the cause for which the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, will sit on the bench, accused of filtering information from the president's couple when the Public Ministry tried to deny that information.
The reality is that Ayuso's couple had assumed before the Prosecutor's Office on February 2, 2024, a week before the Prosecutor's Office denounced it in the courts, which had disappointed taxes. He had done it in a letter where he promised to pay more than half a million euros and proposed an eight -month prison sentence, provided he did not imply his entry into prison.
Prosecutors and experts
After the initial defense he made of his partner after transcending that he had recognized the crimes, Ayuso recovered the strategy of the attack on the institutions. “A plot is manufactured with two pipes and if they want, I make a plot right now,” said the president in April 2024. Frauds such as González Amador are not so common: less than 1% of taxpayers investigated by the Treasury end up denounced before justice like him. That only happens with the most serious cases and those that can behave bleaching, smuggling or tax crime.
Not only are the indications that appear in the initial inspection of the Treasury and those that appeared during the judicial investigation. The judicial headquarters of the Finance officials and the prosecutors who investigated González Amador have also questioned the theory of Ayuso's conspiracy. Two prosecutors directly involved in the case, Julián Salto and Almudena Lastra, testified last January in the Supreme Court and explained the detail that throws that theory by land: neither in the Madrid Prosecutor's Office nor in the Attorney General's Office knew who González Amador was until days after the case was already in the hands of the judges.
Nor did they know that, throughout the fiscal and criminal process, their lawyer recognized his guilt several times in search of a pact or an escape that avoided jail. Everything while Ayuso and his surroundings spread falsehoods like there was no fraud and in reality, it was the hacienda who owed money to the businessman.
The publication of the declaration in the Court of the Finance Experts who discovered the fraud points in the same direction. “That is a personal issue. I don't get there,” said the inspector when González Amador's lawyer asked him when he had “knowledge” that her client was a couple of the president. Despite the judge's warnings that that issue should not be addressed, the lawyer insisted. “I do not get into anyone's personal life (…). It is not a fact that comes within our report,” said the Treasury official.
Less than two weeks ago, one day after the audios transcended the statement in which the experts ratified the report that gave rise to the judicial case, Ayuso chose not to give explanations. And again, a conspiracy theory that calls for the last judicial order was paid again. The president accused the central government of “using” the Tax Agency to “persecute” who “triumphs, prosper or is a little better.” In his opinion, the agency from which the report that will end up taking his partner to the bench is a “machine to expel fortunes, investments and property”.