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Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, acknowledged in writing before the Prosecutor’s Office the two tax crimes of which he was accused and proposed being sentenced to eight months in prison. The letter dated at the beginning of February, to which elDiario.es has had access, reflects that the businessman’s defense recognizes “in full” that he committed two tax crimes between 2020 and 2021, which according to the Tax Agency total more than 350,000 euros, in which Corporate Tax after earning several million euros in commissions from the sale of masks during the pandemic.
The proposal, which this newspaper has been able to examine and which Cadena SER has advanced, explains that González Amador “fully assumes the facts” and proposes a sentence that does not imply his entry into prison: four months in prison for each of the two crimes. prosecutors of whom he is accused, a fine of approximately 140,000 euros and that he will be prevented from obtaining subsidies or public aid for nine months. All conditional on the fact that, in any case, the prison sentence is suspended and, therefore, he does not go to jail.
The letter itself details and acknowledges that it defrauded 350,951.41 euros, to which it adds another 24,685.51 euros of late payment interest and the fine, which corresponds to 40% of the defrauded amount. The document does not refer to the third crime of which he is accused by the Prosecutor’s Office: the falsification of documents in which, according to the Public Ministry, he incurred when falsifying up to 15 invoices worth 1.7 million euros to allocate expenses to his companies irregularly and, in practice, reduce his Corporate Tax bill in 2020 and 2021 while his income grew exponentially due to the money he collected by intermediating the purchase of masks.
In total, Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner offered to pay more than half a million euros. The almost 351,000 euros of tax fraud, the almost 25,000 euros of interest and the 140,000 euros of fine. In his writing he also acknowledges that the money he tried to pay in advance in 2023 to settle his debt with the Treasury, when he already knew that he was being investigated, would not have served him in any case to avoid the criminal accusation he faces: “We are “I completely agree,” he says, with the Treasury’s statement that this payment “cannot operate as an exculpatory cause or exoneration of liability.” He insists, however, that “the AEAT already has the defrauded contributions through the self-assessment of the 2022 Corporate Tax.”
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s right-hand man in the Community of Madrid, tried to make this offer from González Amador to the Prosecutor’s Office become, in the face of public opinion, the complete opposite: in that it was the Prosecutor’s Office that offered him an agreement but that was stopped “from above.” This was spread on the social network X and was reflected in various media outlets. It was then that the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office issued a statement detailing the development of the events to deny it, a statement that has been denounced by both González Amador himself and the Madrid Bar Association as a possible crime of revealing secrets.
The document is already in the possession of all the members of the Board of Prosecutors, who in the coming days will have to resolve one of the issues arising from the case: the intention of a prosecutor to launch proceedings and examine the communications of the State Attorney General to investigate the leak. All against the criteria exhibited by the same Prosecutor’s Office in another process on the same leak, a criterion defended by the lieutenant prosecutor.
Without a trace of the Andalusian plot
Alberto González’s confession, an eight-page document, although he accepts the defrauded fee in its entirety, constantly refers to the two largest invoices: one from Gayani LTD for the amount of 922,585.63 euros for the failed sale of vaccines in Ivory Coast and another from MKE Manufacturing worth 620,000 euros, which corresponds to a business that never occurred for the expansion of González’s activities in Mexico.
These are two invoices that Ayuso’s partner tried to present as expenses even though those works did not occur: when the Treasury detected the deception, Alberto González tried to withdraw them, admitting that he had not had those expenses.
But there is another group of invoices that Alberto González Amador tiptoes over and does not make any reference to in the writing: 206,000 euros from a network of six Andalusian companies to which he issued more than a dozen invoices. There is no evidence that these companies, dedicated to work such as selling horses, transportation, food trading or agricultural activities, did work for Alberto González’s health consulting firm. Most of these companies did not even have employees.
These invoices support the other accusation made by the Prosecutor’s Office: document falsification for presenting false invoices through external companies with the aim of reducing the extraordinary profits of their companies. This crime is not mentioned anywhere in the eight pages of the confession and there is no allusion to Andalusian companies. Until now, Alberto González has not been able to justify these alleged works.
A fraud of 350,000 euros with false invoices
As elDiario.es exclusively revealed last March, the Prosecutor’s Office took Alberto González Amador, his companies and several other people to court for, supposedly, creating a network of false invoices to underpay the Tax. Companies in 2020 and 2021. The years of the pandemic in which the current partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid, made a fortune by intermediating in the purchase and sale of masks, face masks that public administrations were desperately seeking in the Persian market international medical equipment.
The income of González Amador, presented to the public by Ayuso’s entourage as a “health technician” when it was learned that he was in a relationship, skyrocketed with these commissions: two million euros. From there, according to the Tax Agency and the Prosecutor’s Office, González Amador’s strategy was to find a way to optimize his profits and pay as little as possible for Corporate Tax through his company Maxwell Cremona. The solution was to present false invoices to make the Treasury believe that his company had incurred million-dollar expenses and reduce the bill for that tax when, in reality, those expenses had not existed.
There were 15 invoices worth 1.7 million euros that, according to the accusation against him, did not correspond to any real work. As he himself acknowledged through his lawyer, the result was 155,000 euros underpaid in 2020 and 195,951.41 euros more in 2021, exceeding the limit of tax crime in both years.
The Tax Agency became suspicious when his income multiplied but without his Corporate Tax bill doing so proportionally. He transferred his accusations to the Prosecutor’s Office, which ended up denouncing him before the courts and it was the 19th investigative court of Madrid that decided to charge González Amador and his collaborators, calling him to testify on May 20.
Since elDiario.es uncovered the tax irregularities of González Amador, his businesses and the unknowns surrounding the apartment where he lives with Isabel Díaz Ayuso in Madrid, the regional government’s strategy has been to attribute everything to a persecution by the Treasury and the Prosecutor’s Office while, in parallel, the businessman acknowledged the crimes and proposed a pact to the Prosecutor’s Office much earlier than what is usually done in these cases, without even having been reported. In addition to the dissemination of hoaxes and lies by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Ayuso’s chief of staff in the Community of Madrid, about editors of this newspaper and threats to one of its journalists.
A possible pact like the one sought by Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner, common in tax fraud crimes, would prevent her from entering prison if she complies with all the economic terms of the agreement, but it would not prevent either the investigation phase or the opening of a trial. oral. The prosecutor in the case himself, in the communications prior to the opening of the judicial investigation, informed González Amador’s lawyer that the refusal of other defendants to agree would not hinder a possible agreement with him to avoid prison in exchange for recognizing, in words of his lawyer, who “certainly” committed two tax crimes.
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