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On February 2, 2024, when no one other than him and the Treasury knew about his tax fraud, Alberto González Amador offered the Prosecutor’s Office a pact in which he not only confessed to two crimes against the Public Treasury, he also proposed a sentence: eight months in prison. prison, as long as it did not imply his entry into prison, and the payment of more than half a million euros (the 350,000 that he had failed to pay in two years of corporate tax, almost 25,000 in interest and a fine of 140,000 euros). All of this appears in the email that the defense of Ayuso’s partner sent to a generic address of the Prosecutor’s Office when he saw that his trial for fraud against the Treasury was inevitable. González Amador knew that the inspection had begun two years earlier, that the Treasury had evidence that there were invoices for 1.7 million euros for unrealized expenses and that his case could only end in a conviction.
In this scenario, Ayuso’s partner sought agreement by assuming the crimes, a common formula among tax fraudsters, which in their case also avoided the appearances of front men, experts and tax inspectors during sessions of a trial that he was going to multiply the publicity of his fraud.
Unlike what was reported in the fake news published by various media, to which Miguel Ángel Rodríguez told that the initiative for the agreement had come from the prosecutor in the case and that it was his superiors who were trying to stop the pact, the proposal arose from the defense of González Amador. The prosecutor in the case never opposed that agreement. He limited himself to responding that the existence of other defendants – the businessmen who provided the false invoices detected by the Treasury – was not an obstacle to reaching an agreement. But following the usual procedure, the prosecutor presented the complaint in court, the only scenario where this type of three-way agreement can be sealed in which the defense, the Prosecutor’s Office, the State Attorney’s Office, representing the Public Treasury, participate. , and which must then be ratified by the judge.
When elDiario.es exclusively announced the fraud of the Madrid president’s partner, on March 12, one month and ten days after González Amador’s confession, Isabel Díaz Ayuso and her chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, put A propaganda operation was underway in which they not only denied the crimes but also attributed the Treasury inspection to a maneuver by the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
Ayuso went so far as to say that it was a campaign in which all the powers of the State were involved and defended that, in reality, it was the Treasury that owed more than 500,000 euros to her partner.
The president of Madrid stated this on March 13, one month and 11 days after her partner had confessed to the crimes in writing, proposed a fine of 140,000 euros, in addition to paying the amount defrauded, and assuming an eight-month sentence. of jail as long as it did not imply his entry into prison.
The president’s team returned to the fray with this argument a few days ago. The reality is that Alberto González tried to remedy his deception in 2020 and 2021 against the Treasury by entering the amounts owed in 2022 into the public coffers, when he was already being investigated. “This inspection never ceases to surprise the way in which the taxpayer has attempted to regularize the situation through the Corporate Tax for the year 2022, when it is an expense deducted in the 2020 and 2021 declarations,” they stated. written by the inspectors. That money, which Ayuso’s partner paid without anyone asking, is what explains the supposed Treasury “debt” that the president of Madrid boasts about. When González Amador verified that he was not going to be able to reduce the punishment, he requested a refund. That’s where the 522,000 euros come from.
Well, another of the highlights of the email from González Amador’s lawyer is the one in which he admits that he tried to pay 629,000 euros more than he should have paid in the years 2020 and 2021 and that he did so once “the inspection procedure had started.” . The lawyer adds: “(this) cannot operate as an exculpatory cause or exoneration of responsibility, with which we completely agree.”
The email of the confession appears in the documentation that the Prosecutor’s Office has sent to the Chamber prosecutors. This Board of Prosecutors must take a position this Wednesday on the claim of a Madrid prosecutor who has asked to investigate the communications of the State Attorney General following a complaint from Ayuso’s partner. In that complaint, Alberto González Amador accuses the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office of revealing secrets and harming his right to defense. The lieutenant prosecutor corrected the prosecutor assigned to this complaint because she wants to report in favor of admitting the complaint of Ayuso’s partner to processing, exactly the opposite criterion to that adopted by the Public Ministry in a complaint filed by the Bar Association of Madrid.
González Amador’s complaint that the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid must study is based on a note from the prosecutor’s office in which he denied information from El Mundo that reproduced the false version of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, according to which he was the prosecutor in the case. the one who proposed a compliance agreement on fraud. To dismantle this false information that reproduced one of the emails between the defense and the Prosecutor’s Office that Ayuso’s chief of staff leaked to different media as if it were the beginning of the negotiation, the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office sent to the press a chronology showing that The agreement proposal came from the defense of González Amador.
Since the first information published by elDiario.es, Ayuso’s chief of staff threatened to close this media outlet, falsely accused two journalists from this newsroom of trying to enter the Madrid president’s home by force and hooded, He leaked to some media an alleged cyber attack (with means that only the States have, he said) on the computers of González Amador’s lawyers.
Still last week, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, who from the beginning refused to answer elDiario.es’ questions about the fraud, claiming that it was an issue that affected a “private citizen”, leaked again to some press that in reality it was the Treasury who was indebted to Ayuso’s partner.
This is another hoax generated by the Madrid Government and is based on a return of funds that the Tax Agency must make to González Amador but which does not affect the accusation of tax fraud in any way. In fact, it has to do with a maneuver that González Amador, once he knows that the Treasury has discovered him.
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