The businessman Alberto González Amador, partner of the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso, is summoned again this Monday before the court that is investigating him for a tax fraud of more than 350,000 euros after getting rich in the pandemic by selling masks. It is the second time that the commission agent goes to court after the first appearance, on May 20, was suspended. That day he remained hidden in the facilities for three hours and put on a wig to try to mislead the journalists. This investigation runs parallel to another case in which he presents himself as a victim of revelation of secrets by the same Prosecutor’s Office that reported him.
The summons is produced with the doubt of whether the businessman will reach an agreement with the Public Ministry to reduce the prison sentence to which he is exposed for two tax crimes and another for document falsification and avoid going to prison. It was the Prosecutor’s Office who took him to court after the Treasury detected the fraud, as elDiario.es exclusively reported.
In recent months, this newspaper has also revealed that after that hit, González Amador bought the apartment where he lives with the president and that the two also enjoy a second home located right above that apartment that is owned by some businessmen linked to the commission agent. The administrator of the company that owns this second residence is related to the president of Quirón Prevention, a subsidiary of the main contractor of contracts in the Community of Madrid in health matters. Both properties are valued at 2.8 million euros at market price. During this time, neither González Amador nor the president have explained what they enjoy from that luxury penthouse in exchange.
Two million for selling masks
If this hypothetical agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office does not occur, Ayuso’s partner will have to explain to Judge Inmaculada Iglesias how it is possible that although her income multiplied by more than six in 2020 – more than 2.3 million – she would only declare 8,400 euros of profit and, consequently, their tax bill was as low as in previous years. The investigation revealed that, to do so, it used a network of false invoices and front companies.
That is, he tried to make his profit lower in the eyes of the Tax Agency by pretending to have expenses that had not occurred, in order to pay less taxes. The investigations detected that these invoices were issued by companies with hardly any activity, many without workers, for generic concepts and without the work for which they supposedly paid having been accredited. The main source of income was a commission of two million euros for mediating the purchase and sale of masks and gloves, although he also invoiced almost another million euros to whom the Prosecutor’s Office indicates as his “main client”, the Quirón Salud business group.
Furthermore, to reduce that tax bill, he sought the collaboration of four businessmen, owners of eight companies in total. The Mexican Maximiliano Niederer – whom the Tax Agency accuses of being a front man – issued two invoices for 1,542,585 euros. Three Andalusian businessmen issued up to 13 invoices for work not performed. The four are also being investigated in this same case.
If the hypothetical agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office occurs, it would be the second time that González Amador admits having deceived the Tax Agency. He already did so in writing, on February 2, ten days before elDiario.es exclusively revealed the existence of the complaint against him. Then, his lawyer sent the Prosecutor’s Office an email in which she “fully” acknowledged that his client had committed two tax crimes between 2020 and 2021.
In that proposal, González Amador proposed accepting eight months in prison, returning the 350,951.41 euros defrauded, paying a fine of approximately 140,000 euros and another 24,685.51 euros in late payment interest, as well as being prevented from obtaining subsidies or public aid. for nine months. All conditional on the fact that, in any case, the prison sentence was suspended and, therefore, he did not go to jail. Whether or not this proposal is maintained is, for the moment, a mystery.
The complaint against the Prosecutor’s Office
González Amador’s summons overlaps with the parallel judicial investigation in which he presents himself as a victim of revelation of secrets by the same Prosecutor’s Office that reported him. His complaint – and another for the same facts presented by the Madrid Bar Association – has led to the investigation against two Madrid prosecutors, while the case points to the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz.
The businessman and commission agent filed a complaint against both for a crime of revealing secrets by publishing a statement about the case to deny false information disseminated by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Ayuso’s chief of staff. González Amador accuses both prosecutors of having disseminated confidential data about the emails in which his defense, in search of an agreement, acknowledged to the Prosecutor’s Office that he had committed two tax crimes. That statement was published after Rodríguez leaked false information to several media outlets that was published by several of them: that the Prosecutor’s Office had offered a pact to González Amador and then stopped him on orders from a superior.
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