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Alberto González Amador has reported to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) the Madrid City Council, accusing it of leaking data related to the file of the illegal works that he carried out in his apartment in Chamberí in 2022. This is confirmed by El Debate, which cites “sources close to the council” to report on this lawsuit, in which its lawyers ask that those allegedly responsible for the information leak be identified.
The aforementioned newspaper assures that both PSOE and Más Madrid had access to the file on unlicensed work, deposited in the Chamberí Board, data that González Amador had not been able to consult in its entirety according to the same information. For this reason, he asks the AEPD to act ex officio to investigate the facts. His partner, Díaz Ayuso, has confirmed the filing of the complaint and has supported this action, alleging that “personal data” has been leaked.
The construction file on the apartment in which González Amador lives with the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has been the subject of controversy since it became known that it was renovated thanks to works without a license, as Somos Madrid reported. mid-May and confirmed by the City Council itself at the end of the same month with an on-site inspection.
The property was acquired in the summer of 2022, after Alberto González’s confessed tax fraud that was revealed by elDiario.es last March. In August 2022, it began to demolish its interior, relying on a responsible declaration, which the Madrid City Council later told it was not enough to undertake the work. At the end of that year, two municipal resolutions ordered him to stop work that, however, continued.
The two resolutions denying the works were signed by the general coordinator of Chamberí. As this media reported, she was dismissed from her position after Almeida’s re-election as mayor. Like the Chamberí councilor at the time the denial of the work was processed, Javier Ramírez, he has ended up far from this district. She is currently deputy director of the Office of the New Madrid General Urban Planning Plan. The Madrid City Council assures that her dismissal was voluntary because the coordinator “wanted to return to her place.” Internal sources of the PP consulted by this newspaper assure that Ramírez’s departure from the lists – he was sunk to 33rd place – was due to “retaliation” for having objected to the works in the apartment where the president of Madrid currently resides. .
Informative lock and complaint from the PSOE
The complaint to the Data Protection Agency by Alberto González comes despite the zeal shown by Mayor Almeida’s team in maintaining an informative lock on the file opened for illegal works. Vice Mayor Inmaculada Sanz even assured that she was not going to leak “a single piece of information,” defending the amputation of the file handed over to the opposition.
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, acknowledged this Friday that there has been a data leak and has announced that he will investigate “improper” access to the City Council’s database. It is “obvious”, he has said in statements to the media regarding the leak of information. “We are the first interested in clarifying who has improperly accessed the databases of the Madrid City Council and has made spurious and possibly illegal use of data.”
“He is a person who must have had authorization to access Madrid City Council databases (…) councilors and officials have access here,” he added before defending the president of Chamberí, Jaime González Taboada, whose position is not in “interdict” because he has stated that he has “no type of responsibility.”
The PSOE denounced first before the Anti-Fraud Office of the City Council and then before the Chamberí Board the mutilated delivery of information about the works, through several photocopies of unnumbered documents, with abundant crossouts and entire pages in black to hide key data in the review of this case.
Today, after the complaint became known, the socialists have assured that they “always respect the principle of confidentiality and the duty of secrecy of all data, this and the other files it receives.” They have also recalled that the documentation of the file was available in the City Council’s Conex system, a publicly accessible website that at the time the apartment case was made public allowed any citizen to download files. Its municipal spokesperson, Reyes Maroto, highlighted that “yesterday Almeida described our complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office as ridiculous, I would like to know how he describes the alleged complaint from the president’s partner for the same reason and if he has spoken with Ayuso about this matter.” .
While the courts resolve these issues, the legalization of unlicensed works in the apartment where the regional president lives advances in parallel. Once the Madrid City Council has verified its fraudulent execution, the process has begun for Alberto González to restore the property to its previous state or legalize the work. In the second case, he will probably have to pay a fine, which has yet to be quantified.
More Madrid: “Ayuso wants to send a message to Almeida”
The other political party that appears in the complaint, Más Madrid, describes the lawsuit as a “smokescreen.” “The problem is not the leak of a file, but the favorable treatment that the Ayuso clan has had by the Almeida City Council,” explain sources from Rita Maestre’s party, which denounced on March 20 the urban planning irregularities in the Alberto González Amador’s apartment, which forced the council to inspect the property.
Furthermore, they warn that “if with these types of maneuvers they think they are going to prevent us from continuing to be the eyes, ears and speaker of the excesses that the PP wants to do behind closed doors, they are not going to achieve it. “More Madrid will continue to fight the abuses of Ayuso and Almeida on the front line.” Finally, Rita Maestre’s party interprets that, with this demand, “it seems that Ayuso wants to send a message to Almeida through the Spanish Data Protection Agency, because he does not like the law to be the same for everyone.”
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