Ayuso's team spreads without evidence that the Treasury asks to return half a million to the president's partner to justify his fraud

The team of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced this Wednesday to various media outlets that the Treasury is preparing to return more than half a million euros to her partner, Alberto González Amador, although without providing any type of proof or document that supports that statement. The Treasury denounces the Community's “desire to confuse and distort” this case while Ayuso herself insists on defining the case of her partner as “a political hunt”, whose lawyer admitted in writing several months ago that he had committed two crimes. tax crimes worth more than 350,000 euros with a network of false invoices.

Various media outlets have spread the claims, citing sources from the Community of Madrid and the president's team. Statements according to which the Tax Agency has requested – or will request in the future, depending on the media that publishes it – that more than half a million euros be returned to Alberto González Amador. A statement followed by reflections from Puerta del Sol on how this movement shows that Ayuso was right in stating that it is a “hunt” and that, in reality, it is the Treasury that owes money to his partner.

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez himself, Ayuso's chief of staff in the Community of Madrid, has spread the alleged information on his account on the social network X.

The regional president's team has disseminated this information, for the moment, without providing any type of data or document to support the statement it makes. Her press officer, for the moment, has not answered the calls or responded to the messages from this medium to ask questions about it. She does not specify, for example, whether this alleged return is related to the double tax crime that he himself recognized in Corporate Tax or, conversely, with other tax inspections relating to different years or different taxes, such as Personal Income Tax, which have ended in an ordinary settlement and not in a criminal process.

Isabel Díaz Ayuso herself has come out to comment on her partner's tax information initially released by her own team to insist, without mentioning that half a million, on the theory that the Treasury investigation, the Prosecutor's complaint and the judicial accusation respond to a State operation against her: “I didn't lie. He was right and everything that is happening is due to a political hunt,” she stated.

The vice president and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, expressed surprise this Wednesday by the statements of the Community of Madrid regarding the alleged return of half a million euros to Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. “I have no idea, I don't know where that information came from. What surprises me is that the Community of Madrid has it, if it is tax data I am very surprised that it is the Community itself that manages tax data.”

Montero has assured that he lacks details about the case and has speculated that these statements are “part of the fake news and hoaxes” spread in recent weeks by Ayuso's team regarding his partner's tax fraud case.

Treasury sources refuse to comment on the specific data of Alberto González Amador but do criticize that the Community of Madrid and the PP speak “on behalf of the Tax Agency” and that the regional president combines the accusations of “hunting” with the supposed return of more of 500,000 euros. According to these sources, the statement that this supposed return would neutralize the double imputation for a tax crime is not true: “Only from the desire to confuse and distort can a person make statements like this.”

A recognized tax fraud

As elDiario.es exclusively revealed, the Prosecutor's Office denounced Alberto González Amador, his companies and several partners for perpetrating tax fraud of more than 350,000 euros. A fraud perpetrated through 15 false invoices with which he artificially increased the expenses of his companies and drastically and illegally reduced his Corporate Tax bill after collecting several million euros in commissions for participating in the sale and purchase of masks during the pandemic.

González Amador will have to testify as a defendant in a Madrid court on May 20. He will do so after last February his own lawyer wrote to the Prosecutor's Office to explicitly recognize the two tax crimes and implement an agreement to avoid a good part of the criminal process in exchange for assuming the facts and paying the money. .

The documentation of the case also reveals that, throughout the judicial process, Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner tried without success to regularize her situation and settle part of her debts when the investigation was already underway. She did so by trying to cancel some invoices and paying what she owed in the Corporate Tax return for subsequent years.

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