by The lawyer of Alberto González Amador, partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, sent an eight-page document to the Prosecutor’s Office on February 2 in which he admits that his client committed two tax crimes and details the sanction to which he he commits to avoid going to prison. The writing, to which EL PAÍS has had access through sources familiar with the investigation, is a…
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The lawyer of Alberto González Amador, partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, sent an eight-page document to the Prosecutor’s Office on February 2 in which he admits that his client committed two tax crimes and details the sanction to which he he commits to avoid going to prison. The letter, to which EL PAÍS has had access through sources familiar with the investigation, is an annex to the already known email in which he acknowledged that “two crimes have certainly been committed against the Public Treasury” and contains in detail the penalty. that he is willing to accept: eight months in prison (with which he could avoid prison as it is less than 24 months and he has no criminal record), payment of the defrauded fee (350,951 euros), late payment interest and a penalty of 40% of what is owed to the Treasury, which would total 520,000 euros.
This proposal for criminal compliance by González Amador is known after the maneuvers of the Community of Madrid to present Ayuso’s partner as the victim of a political hunt, with which they have tried to confuse public opinion since the case broke out on the 12th. of March. As part of this offensive, last week the president presented as alleged evidence a tax refund of 620,000 euros, which was part of an attempt at regularization during the investigation that was not accepted by the Treasury. In this writing, the lawyer recognizes that this voluntary payment “cannot operate as an exculpatory cause or exoneration of responsibility.” And he adds: “With which we completely agree.”
González Amador’s lawyer, Carlos Neira, sent this letter on February 2 at 12:45 pm under the subject “Proposed criminal compliance crime against the HP (Public Treasury).” The document details González Amador’s position on the fraud in six sections, which had been investigated by Treasury inspectors for 18 months and which corresponded to the 2020 and 2021 corporate tax years.
In the first sentence, Ayuso’s partner recognizes the facts: “Alberto González Amador fully accepts the facts contained in the Crime-Linked Settlement that we attach to this proposal, as well as the existence of two crimes against the Public Treasury for the Corporate Tax , 2020 and 2021, and his authorship as sole administrator and partner (sic) of the Maxwell Cremona company.
Furthermore, in another section, regarding prison punishment, he accepts “a prison sentence of 4 months for each crime to be imposed on Alberto González Amador.” That is, he would accept eight months in prison. Added to this is “the loss of the possibility of obtaining public subsidies or aid and the right to enjoy tax or Social Security benefits or incentives during the 9-month period.”
Regarding the fine, and in accordance with article 305.6 of the Penal Code, the lawyer proposes the imposition of “a fine of 40% of the defrauded fee, taking into account the compensation for the damage, and the recognition of the facts.” In addition, the document also includes a commitment to pay the costs.
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In the last section, on suspension of the sentence, the lawyer recalls that “in any case, this proposal for criminal conformity is conditional on the suspension of the prison sentence that is included in the criminal conformity definitively achieved.”
These types of agreements must be accepted by the Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office and ratified before a judge. To reach this agreement it will be necessary for González Amador to testify on May 20 in the Investigative Court number 19 in Madrid.
After the publication that Ayuso’s partner fully accepted the tax fraud, the Madrid president’s chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, has claimed to have “the feeling that the State Attorney General will end up in jail.” “It’s my opinion, from my personal phone. Sánchez’s hunt against Díaz Ayuso is going badly. Spain is not Venezuela”, he has published on social network X.
From the beginning of this case, the PP and the Community Government have activated a media machinery to change the dynamics of the political and reputational crisis surrounding the president after her partner’s scandal. This is a chronology with key dates.
March 12. The Prosecutor’s Office denounces Ayuso’s partner for defrauding the Treasury of 350,951 euros. The Prosecutor’s Office signed a complaint for two crimes of tax fraud and one crime of forgery in a commercial document against a group of five people that includes González Amador, as published elDiario.es on March 12. The total amount defrauded through a scheme of false invoices amounts to 350,951 euros, according to Treasury calculations.
For an alleged fraud like this to end up in the Prosecutor’s Office, it requires that 120,000 euros or more have been defrauded and that the Treasury inspectors appreciate voluntariness and deliberation to defraud, as in this case, where up to 15 false invoices are presented with eight companies.
March 13. Ayuso defends his partner in Leganés 24 hours later. “They seek to destabilize me through my personal destruction.” “Pedro Sánchez is sitting in political and economic corruption and this is not going to cover it up.” 24 hours after the case broke out, the president of the Community of Madrid appeared before the media as a victim of a political destabilization operation designed by the PSOE to cover up the scandal of the Koldo case, the former advisor to former minister José Luis Ábalos, and the processing of the amnesty law. The Treasury report details that the investigation by tax inspectors began in May 2022. That is, two years before the scandal of the Koldo case.
Ayuso also claimed to feel like a victim of a “wild and crazy tax inspection.” The reality is that the Tax Agency inspected almost 29,000 taxpayers in 2022, but only reported 184 cases to the Prosecutor’s Office, which are the most serious and among which is González Amador, as reported. elDiario.es on March 24.
March 13. MÁR enters the scene. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, known as MÁR, the president’s chief of staff, leaked to the newspaper on March 13 The worldand then to other media, the content of an email with the apparent idea of confusing who initially proposed the agreement.
Ayuso’s main collaborator not only spread that email, but also told journalists, and through his social networks, that this agreement was offered to the president’s boyfriend, but later the prosecutor in charge of the case received “orders from above to withdraw the agreement proposal… all dirty.”
The next day, the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Madrid, through a brief and public note, explained that it was the other way around, that González Amador’s lawyer wrote to the Prosecutor’s Office by email on February 2, proposing an agreement and acknowledging the facts. crimes that were attributed to his client. That is, the email sent by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez was part of a chain. This attempt at clarification by the Prosecutor’s Office has allowed Ayuso’s partner to sue for disclosure of confidential data.
Rodríguez was signed by the president of Madrid in January 2020. Since then and until March 12, 2024, he had published eight messages. Since this scandal broke out, he has spent eight in one month spreading hoaxes and serious accusations to journalists investigating the González Amador case.
April 3. Ayuso’s number two meets with Ayuso’s boyfriend. The general secretary of the PP of Madrid, Alfonso Serrano, met on Wednesday, April 3, with González Amador in a bar in Madrid, according to Cadena SER.. The meeting took place in a cafeteria in the Barajas district (Madrid) a few hours after González’s defense presented its complaint against the Prosecutor’s Office. The opposition to Ayuso has criticized this meeting as part of the efforts of the Community of Madrid to defend an alleged tax fraudster.
5th of April. Ayuso’s Communication team distributes to the press an alleged ‘hack’ of the lawyer’s email. Once again, the president’s Communications team distributed a complaint to related media about an alleged hacking suffered by González Amador’s lawyers. This email was previously modified by Rodríguez’s chief of staff, as this newspaper verified when consulting the properties of the document.
April 17th. Ayuso and his team reveal that the Treasury will return 552,000 euros to González Amador. The message did not clarify the reason for the refund nor was it accompanied by documentary evidence. The president presented it as evidence of the “hunt.” However, hours later it was learned that this return corresponded to the amount that his partner irregularly disbursed to close the investigation, a payment that was rejected by the Tax Agency and that González Amador’s lawyer recognizes as invalid to exonerate him from responsibility, as proven by the document published this Tuesday by EL PAÍS.
Write to the authors at fpeinado@elpais.es and mviejo@elpais.es
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