The judge investigating Alberto González Amador, Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner, for tax fraud, has rejected the request by PSOE and Más Madrid that the case be extended to his business relations with the Quirón group, a healthcare giant and regular contractor in the sector with the Community of Madrid. The investigating magistrate explains that several of the proceedings proposed by the popular accusations are “unnecessary” and could delay the investigation for years.
The court is investigating the double tax fraud of more than 350,000 euros revealed by elDiario.es and which González Amador himself admitted to the Tax Agency and the Prosecutor’s Office a few months after learning that he was being investigated. Ayuso’s partner used a network of false invoices to reduce the tax burden of his companies for corporate tax after earning several million euros during the coronavirus pandemic. Money from commissions for his involvement in mask sales operations during the worst of the first waves of the health crisis.
The court has tried to question him several times without success while his defense, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Treasury explore an agreement so that he admits the facts, pays his debts to the tax office and avoids going to prison. For the moment, Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner has offered to accept an eight-month prison sentence, paying more than half a million euros between debt, fine and interest but without his prison sentence being carried out.
It was the PSOE and Más Madrid, who appeared in the case as popular accusations, who asked the judge to consider the possibility of extending the case to include his business relations with the Quirón group, considering that these works could also conceal new tax frauds. The Prosecutor’s Office was against this option, in the midst of negotiations with González Amador’s defence, which included a battery of proceedings and the expansion of the range of crimes attributed to him.
The magistrate of the 19th court of Madrid has rejected this possibility, explaining that the proceedings proposed by the accusations would be “unnecessary” and that they could even be prospective in nature, in addition to prolonging the case for several more years. A total of 23 groups of proceedings that include the investigation of the assets of Alberto González and the rest of those investigated between 2019 and 2022, all their accounts in those years, and also the sale of the house in which he currently lives with Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid, together with about twenty witnesses.
These proceedings, which also include requests to companies and Mexican authorities, as well as letters rogatory to Panama and the United States, would entail “complexity and delay” in the process, according to the judge. Putting all these tests into operation would mean prolonging the case “for years.” Some of them, even, “can be considered prospective.”
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