Businessman Alberto González Amador, associate of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, is the protagonist of two of the most relevant legal cases of the moment. In one of them, he is accused of defrauding more than 350,000 euros after multiplying his profits with mask contracts at the height of the pandemic. The other is investigating whether the emails in which his lawyer admitted to this tax fraud were illegally leaked to the press. The main case, in which the commissioner risks a prison sentence after admitting three crimes, has been paralyzed for months. The derivative, for its part, is advancing at full speed before the Supreme Court, with the Attorney General as the main accused and a new path that will begin this Friday with the testimony of the leader of the PSM, Juan Lobato, as a witness.
Last March, the prosecution denounced González Amador for having defrauded more than 350,000 euros between 2020 and 2021 thanks to a network of false invoices and shell companies. The businessman charged 3.7 million euros in those years, almost two of which came from a one-off commission for mediating a mask sales contract. When the time came to justify these huge profits to the Treasury, he attempted to deceive the Treasury. He did this by spending hundreds of thousands of euros on jobs that never existed, but which benefited him fiscally.
During the first months of the tax investigation, his defense tried to fight the Treasury’s accusations and argued that the jobs were real. But the strategy is geared towards recognizing the facts and limiting the damage. First, he withdrew some bills with which he had tried to pay less taxes; and, a month before being denounced when the Treasury inspection concluded that there had been fraud of 350,000 euros in two years, he proposed a pact to the public prosecutor’s office. In this agreement, he was willing to accept eight months in prison and pay more than half a million euros in debts, fines and interest in exchange for not going to prison and closing the case with a corresponding sentence. He explained this in an email dated February 2, 2024.
The Treasury’s investigation prior to communication to the Prosecutor’s Office was so exhaustive that the procedure opened by Judge Inmaculada Iglesias essentially consisted of requesting all documents from the Treasury and having González Amador himself and his alleged associates testify. However, so far only three attempts have failed to bring the businessman to court.
The last one was scheduled for this Friday, November 29, but the businessman managed to have it postponed while waiting for the Madrid court to decide whether there is reason to also investigate his relations with the Quirón group, the private health giant that benefits from allocations of hundreds of millions from the Community of Madrid, as demanded by the popular accusation of the PSOE and Más Madrid.
Both parties requested that an investigation be carried out, in particular into his relationship with Fernando Camino, president of Quirón Prévention and a key figure in his professional rise linked to this health giant. Among the issues the charges ask to be investigated is the purchase of a company owned by Camino’s wife for almost half a million euros that González Amador made after earning almost two million commissions for the sale of masks to a company, itself linked to the president of Quirón Prévention. Camino is also a director of the MAPE company, a Pontevedra company that purchased 45 million euros worth of masks from the company that had promised commissions to Ayuso’s associate. González Amador earned two million from this operation.
The PSOE and Más Madrid argue that the buyout of the company from Camino could be a formula to distribute the commission and ask the judge to investigate. Regardless, the final word will go to the Madrid Court, the court before which González Amador appealed the judge’s decision to open a separate case to investigate his relationship with the health giant and Fernando Camino .
The luxury penthouse
At the same time, the president of the Community of Madrid, who at the start of the case declared that it was the Public Treasury that owed 600,000 euros and attributed the investigation to an operation of all state powers, still does not explain in exchange for what The company gives him the benefit of a luxury penthouse located on the upper floor of the house that his partner acquired after defrauding the Treasury. “Luxury penthouse? “We must die laughing with you.” This is all that the President of the Community of Madrid has said in recent months about the use and enjoyment of a house which, at market price, exceeds 1.9 million euros, and including elDiario. es revealed the existence nine months ago.
Well before the scandal broke, the president had announced in some interviews her intention to buy an apartment in the Chamberí neighborhood (where the two properties she enjoys are located) supposedly to no longer pay the high rents charged in the capital.
The ownership of the second property, the one located just above the one acquired by González Amador, corresponds 100% to the company Babia Capital SL, according to this media. This company is currently run by Javier Luis Gómez Fidalgo, the prosecutor who represented González Amador during the tax investigation. However, the main owner of Babia Capital SL, and therefore of the penthouse, is Jorge Pablos, as hotel businessman Jorge Carlos Pablos Alonso is called in León, who refused to make any comment beyond the fact that he is not the owner. . sole owner of the company that owns the penthouse and from which the couple benefits.
Babia Capital SL acquired the property in July 2023, around the time Ayuso and his partner moved into the lower floor. Since then, the president of Madrid and her partner have been using both properties, according to several witnesses reported to eldiario.es. Babia Capital SL purchased the penthouse with cash and money borrowed from a third party. This is clear from the latest annual accounts of this company, which show that one person (an individual or a company) lent it 955,000 euros in 2023.
When the Leonese company bought the penthouse on the seventh floor, its owners had known for months that the Madrid president and her partner were going to live just below. Alberto González Amador acquired the purchase of the house located on the sixth floor in July 2022, but only registered in the Land Registry in May 2023, after the last regional elections, which Ayuso won with an absolute majority. Forty-eight hours after registering the purchase of the house, Babia Capital SL purchased the penthouse on the seventh floor.
The luxury penthouse has a gross constructed area of 176 square meters, which is slightly less than the house below listed in the name of Alberto González Amador. The attic is divided into 155 meters of housing and another 21 meters of common elements, according to the Land Registry.
This additional house for Ayuso and his partner includes five bedrooms – three identical, a larger and a “service” –, a main and a smaller bathroom, two corridors – a main and a smaller – and a large terrace on which the Madrid president and the alleged fraudster placed a Spanish flag, visible from the street. The prosecutor who represented González Amador before the Treasury has a long professional relationship with the said Fernando Camino. The hotelier Pablos, the prosecutor González Amador and Fernando Camino know each other from León, where they all resided.
The Supreme Court steps on the accelerator
While the trial against González Amador for tax fraud and falsification of documents is hardly moving forward, the procedure for the leak of the email in which his lawyer admitted the crimes has had time to be processed at the Superior Court of Madrid, arrives at the Supreme Court, seizes emails and messages from the Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, and even published a first report from the Civil Guard.
The procedure, now led by Judge Ángel Hurtado of the Supreme Court, is moving in two directions: that of the prosecution and that of the PSOE. The magistrate, after dismissing the first line of inquiry and rejecting the criminal nature of the March declaration of the Madrid public prosecutor’s office on the case, as declared by the Superior Court of Madrid in its reasoned statement, decided to investigate another aspect: whether it was the lawyer. general who leaked the emails – with González Amador’s confession to two crimes – to the press.
Hurtado placed the case incommunicado and his first measure was to seize the emails and messages of the attorney general and Pilar Rodríguez, provincial prosecutor of Madrid, also under investigation. The Civil Guard has not yet analyzed the content of García Ortiz’s email and phone number, but it has already studied Rodríguez’s messages and deduced that these emails were leaked to the press by the prosecution, even if these messages do not contain any instructions from the public. Ministry in this sense.
The case currently being heard before the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court is moving at a diabolical pace, with the magistrate responding to appeals and requests within a few days. The first UCO report also arrived a few weeks after the searches. But in the last hours, the judge has opened a new line of inquiry: whether these emails also circulated through another channel and ended up in the hands of Juan Lobato, leader of the PSOE in Madrid.
Lobato will have to testify this Friday, therefore obliged to tell the truth and provide everything he registered with a notary at the beginning of November. As the ABC newspaper published, the general secretary of the Madrid socialists kept recordings of certain messages from March 14 in which, supposedly, the Moncloa staff offered him the emails containing the confessions of González Amador for the use that day in the Madrid Assembly against Díaz Ayuso. .
Lobato’s statement, to which the judge agreed a day after the newspaper’s publication, will have to clarify the details of these messages and, above all, at what time he received them, knowing that the first media to have published it publicly did it. shortly after nine in the morning. According to Lobato’s version, he went to the notary a few weeks ago to be able to demonstrate that neither the PSOE nor Moncloa had obtained this information before the media published it. Although in the last hours Lobato has expressed doubts about the veracity of this version. An investigation into the leak of the emails that is moving at a much faster speed than the cause of tax fraud that González Amador admitted to nine months ago and for which he has not yet testified in court.
