A Madrid investigative court has accepted a case against Alberto González Amador for alleged crimes of corporate tax fraud in 2020 and 2021 and falsification in commercial documentation. The judge, María Inmaculada Iglesias Sánchez, has accepted the prosecutor's complaint and will investigate the relationship partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the People's Party (PP) president of the Community of Madrid, and will call him to testify. The judge considers that the public prosecutors' text, which asserts that González Amador's company wrote false invoices with the aim of "reducing tax", shows "indicative evidence of participation in the criminal conduct that is the subject of the investigation". The reaction of the Socialists (PSOE) was not long in coming. Through the social media X, the PSOE called on opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo to "immediately" ask the Madrid president to resign: "The time for turning away is over".
The origin of all of this is a report from the Spanish tax agency, in which it was stated that González Amador's company had registered "an increase in activity income " after acting as an intermediary in "an operation for the sale of medical equipment". In addition, the Treasury asserted that the conduct discovered was not "the result of a mere mistake", but of "conscious, deliberate and clearly malicious" conduct that "deserves criminal reprimand". According to the judicial document made public this Friday, the prosecutors assert that, in the face of "the increase in the volume of business it had experienced" in 2020 and 2021, the company had "improperly deducted expenses using invoices that did not correspond with services actually provided".
The text estimated the alleged tax fraud at 155,000 euros in 2021 and 195,951.41 euros in 2021. In total, 350,000 million euros defrauded over face mask contracts. For this reason, the judge has now agreed to "initiate preliminary proceedings and carry out the essentials aimed at determining the nature and circumstances of the fact and the people who participated in it". She also called six other people, including two tax inspectors, to testify.
A slow drip of information about the alleged corruption of Ayuso's partner
Just ten days ago, the Madrid provincial prosecutors offered Alberto Gonzáléz Amador a deal to plead guilty to two fiscal crimes and one of forgery: it was proposed that he admit the three crimes in exchange for a fine and a light prison sentence which in practice would not entering a jail. The next day it transpired that González Amador had admitted in a written statement on February 2nd that he had committed "two crimes against the Treasury". Despite this, Ayuso has defended him from the first day, repeating on several occasions that it is a "murky case of all the powers of the state being used against an individual".
However, the tax agency's report showed that the man who has been Ayuso's partner since 2021 used two companies without workers on the payroll, and without material to work with, only a computer and a printer. Nevertheless, the main company, Maxwell Cremona, which he used to bill 3.7 million euros in two years, had two high-end cars. The second firm, Masterman & Whitaker, was "a mere intermediary company" that also never had workers or material means to do the work for which it was commissioned.
A thousand people outside PP headquarters call for Ayuso's departure
With the release of all this information, just two days ago, a thousand people gathered in front of the PP headquarters on Calle Génova in Madrid to demand Ayuso's resignation. The protest combined outrage over these cases of corruption with the grievance over the deaths of 7,291 senior citizens resident in care homes during the pandemic. On Thursday, the Congress of Deputies gave the green light to the commission of inquiry into contracting during the pandemic, an investigation that could address both the Koldo case centred on the PSOE and the case of the partner of the PP politician who leads the Community of Madrid.