Alberto González Amador, the colleague of the president of the Community of Madrid, IsabelDíaz Ayuso, has been summoned to testify as an investigator for two tax crimes and one of document falsification for having used shell companies and having issued false invoices to reduce to the maximum the corporate tax. The Tax Agency (AEAT), in charge of inspecting his company, has detected a fraud of 350,000 euros in two fiscal years.
Until yesterday, Díaz Ayuso’s entourage had called both the AEAT investigation and the prosecution’s complaint an operation orchestrated by Moncloa to destroy her politically. However, the interlocutory admission to the procedure and summons as investigated of his partner, González Amador, and four other people he would have used for the false invoicing, has meant a change of script. The popular leader has suffered severe wear and tear since the alleged fraud of her partner, with whom she lives, became known. The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, or she herself will have to decide which firewall they will use to stop this crisis.
The head of the court of inquiry number 19 of Madrid has initiated preliminary proceedings for two alleged crimes of tax fraud and an alleged crime of forgery in a commercial document against González Amador, after receiving the complaint from the Prosecutor’s Office.
The environment of González Amador intends to accept a possible nullity of the proceedings because the public ministry made known through a press release the negotiations it had held with the businessman’s defense in the search for an agreement that would stop the judicial process.
The public ministry decided to make public a chronology of events after Díaz Ayuso’s political environment intentionally leaked the negotiations in a biased manner. In fact, the Madrid Bar Association has denounced the Prosecutor’s Office for having given information about González’s attempt to seek an agreement, acknowledge the facts and pay a fine to avoid a trial. However, tax sources take it for granted that this would in no case justify a nullity of the actions.
This matter began with a Treasury inspection in González in May 2022, which ended with a complaint from the Tax Agency, through the State Attorney’s Office, and another from the Prosecutor’s Office for the possible commission of three crimes.
What is imputed to the Ayuso couple is to have used shell companies to issue invoices for work not carried out and thus reduce corporate tax as much as possible. According to the AEAT report, accessed by La Vanguardia, with this system of falsehoods the Ayuso couple paid four times less in taxes in 2020 and earned eight times more than in 2018, when they paid as tax quota 9,371 euros for a turnover figure of 358,773 euros. Specifically, in 2020 he invoiced 2,339,111 euros thanks to having mediated in a mask business in the midst of a pandemic and paying 2,806 euros as a tax fee. This figure assumes that he paid 0.12% in corporate tax.
In 2021 he balanced the data a little and invoiced 1.3 million euros, for which he paid 9,000 euros in taxes.
In addition to Alberto González, a “possible front man” is also being investigated, a Mexican citizen named Maximiliano Eduardo N. G. He allegedly issued two invoices for 1.6 million euros for work not carried out, one through a company of Mexico and another from the Ivory Coast. During the inspection he admitted that he has no income and only lives on a helping hand from his mother. González tried to cancel these invoices when he was discovered by the tax authorities, but the ploy failed to convince the inspector.
The other three investigated are three men from Arahal (Seville), who created companies with virtually no activity to issue invoices for having allegedly produced health certificates for Marxell, González’s company, which in turn were intended for the Quirón hospital group .
The judge notes how the Tax Agency describes González’s behavior as “false” with the aim of “reducing and even completely neutralizing his taxation”.
