415,000 euros. This is the amount that Commissioner Alberto González Amador, associate of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, threatens to demand in court from a dozen members of the government and leaders of the PSOE and Más Madrid whom he accuses of having defamed him after speaking publicly about double taxation. fraud that he himself admitted. A legal offensive which is taking place in parallel with the trial opened against him and to which a separate element has recently been added to investigate possible crimes in his relations with the Quirón Group, the private health giant which receives hundreds of millions of euros in Community rewards. from Madrid.
The list of people prosecuted by González Amador includes the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, five ministers — María Jesús Montero, Félix Bolaños, Isabel Rodríguez, Diana Morant and Óscar López —; the socialist deputy Javier Zaragoza; the spokesperson for Más Madrid in the Madrid Assembly, Manuela Bergerot; his counterpart at Madrid City Hall, Rita Maestre; and the communications director of the PSOE, Ion Antolín. He also denounced two political groups: the PSOE and Más Madrid.
The highest amount, 100,000 euros in total, is what González Amador threatens to demand from the head of the Executive, which he asked to renounce after calling him a “criminal”. If he does not do so, he will file a complaint against him for defamation and insult in which he will claim the aforementioned amount, according to the conciliation request presented by the commission agent to the courts of Madrid, revealed by The world. The request for an act of conciliation is an act prior to the presentation of a complaint.
The statements that motivate the businessman’s initiative took place on October 17, when Sánchez defended the state attorney general after the Supreme Court’s decision to open an investigation into the leak of a email related to the businessman’s tax fraud case. Sánchez affirmed that Álvaro García Ortiz had done his job: “Prosecuting the criminal and fighting disinformation and hoax.” González Amador considers that these declarations constitute a “violation of the most fundamental duties” of “respect and protection of the fundamental rights of the Spanish citizen”.
The reality is that the businessman confessed to having committed a double taxation crime. He did this in an email sent to the prosecutor’s office on February 2, 2024, more than a month before elDiario.es revealed the case, and which aimed to reach an agreement that would allow him to close the investigation soon . “Certainly two crimes were committed against the Public Treasury”, appears the document, which also affirms its desire to “repair the damage caused by the payment of the entire fee and late payment interest” to the tax authorities. He offered to pay more than 500,000 euros. The nearly 351,000 euros in tax fraud, the nearly 25,000 euros in interest and the 140,000 euros fine.
When these demands were published, Ayuso’s chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, sent messages to journalists in which he declared that the Treasury fine was going to be paid by the opposition. “If everything goes normally, between the government and the PSOE, they will pay you three times more than what the Treasury asks for,” we can read in one of these messages.
González Amador had been denounced for having defrauded more than 350,000 euros between 2020 and 2021 via a network of false invoices and shell companies. She invoiced 3.7 million euros, almost two of which came from a single mediation operation in a contract for the purchase and sale of masks. But when the time came to justify these profits to the Treasury, he tried to deceive the Treasury. He did this by spending hundreds of thousands of euros on jobs that never existed, but which benefited him fiscally.
Montero and Rodríguez, the first accused
The businessman’s legal offensive against left-wing politicians who speak publicly about their problems with the justice system began with Vice President María Jesús Montero, from whom the businessman demands 40,000 euros; and the Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, from whom he demands 20,000 euros. The events date back to last March, a few days after elDiario.es revealed the existence of the prosecutor’s complaint and that Ayuso and his partner live in a million euro apartment that he bought after tax fraud.
On March 12, Vice President Montero was asked about this issue in the Senate and said that this journalistic revelation required Ayuso to give “explanations” and act with transparency “as to whether she lives in an apartment paid for with a Treasury fraud.” Public and with the commissions concerning masks. For her part, Minister Rodríguez declared on March 19, during the press conference which followed the Council of Ministers, that “the majority of Spaniards do not commit crimes to access housing”.
These statements gave rise to proceedings for alleged violation of the right to honor on the part of the partner of the Madrid president. Montero and Rodríguez refused to reach a conciliation agreement, which is why it is expected that in the near future the businessman will file lawsuits against both before the Supreme Court, the judicial body before which they are authorized because of their status as members of the Executive. .
“Confessed criminal”
Other ministers against whom González Amador has taken legal action for violation of the right to honor because he called him a “confessed criminal” are Félix Bolaños, from whom he threatens to demand 50,000 euros; and Óscar López, from whom he plans to demand an additional $50,000 if they do not retract.
In the case of Minister Diana Morant, from whom he asks for 15,000 euros, he wonders if she tried to involve her partner in “a non-existent corruption plot”, as revealed The confidential. In fact, the minister questioned the “thundering silence” of Díaz Ayuso and the lack of “explanations on the relationship of his partner with one of the companies that benefits the most from this wild privatization of health care in the Community of Madrid”. , in reference to Grupo Quirón. This company quadrupled its payments to González Amador after starting a relationship with the Madrid president.
González Amador’s legal actions were also directed against Más Madrid, the leading opposition party in the capital’s Assembly and City Hall. In this case, the proceedings are directed against their spokespersons in the two institutions, Manuela Bergerot and Rita Maestre. The regional deputy relayed the businessman’s initiative on her social networks. “I just received a complaint from Ayuso’s boyfriend and he wants to ask me for 20,000 euros. A complaint to try to silence us, so that we do not say what all of Spain already knows. Mr. Amador: You already have too much work in court to complain about. Be careful with Chiron,” he published in X.
The commissioner asks him to withdraw a message published on this same social network on October 24 in which he described it as criminal and to undertake to no longer disseminate “false information and/or defamatory, humiliating, insulting, slanderous or offensive remarks “. » linked to his person. If she does not do this, he will sue her and demand 20,000 euros.
Nearly two months earlier, González Amador had also threatened to sue Maestre after the advisor posted a message on X in which she asked a series of questions regarding the use and enjoyment by Ayuso and his partner from an attic located just above the apartment they both share and which is in the name of a company belonging to the businessman’s lawyer.
“Who paid for Ayuso and her boyfriend’s penthouse and in exchange for what? “Why is Ayuso hiding the name of her generous patron?” asked the spokesperson. “I will neither shut up nor stop doing my job,” Maestre said in a speech to warm red (laSexta) after receiving the conciliation request. If she does not retract, the commissioner will file a complaint against her and demand 15,000 euros, the same amount as that of her training, Más Madrid.
Más Madrid is not the only group being sued by González Amador. The businessman is also demanding 30,000 euros from the PSOE and another 30,000 from the PSOE communications director, Ion Antolín, whom he holds responsible for the press releases published by the group on its tax fraud case. In the socialist ranks, the Ayuso couple’s legal offensive was also directed against the deputy José Zaragoza, for a comment in Corruption”. If he does not retract, they are demanding 10,000 euros from him.
