Eva Rodríguez
According to ElDiario.es, Alberto González Amador, Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner, is alleged to have defrauded the Treasury between 2020 and 2021. He is accused of two offences of tax fraud and another of false documentation.
Alberto González Amador and Isabel Díaz Ayuso walking in Madrid. Source: Lagencia Press
Alberto González Amador, partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, is being investigated for defrauding the Treasury 350,951 euros between 2020 and 2021 through false invoices and front companies, as revealed by ElDiario.es. He is accused of corporate tax fraud in 2020 for 155,000 euros and in 2021 for another 195,951.41 euros. He is also charged with the offence of falsifying documents by presenting false invoices through external companies in order to obtain a reduction in the extraordinary profits of his companies.
The complaint was filed by the provincial prosecutor's office in Madrid on 5 March after receiving the conclusions of an investigation initiated two years ago by the Tax Agency following his enrichment in the Pandemic. The conclusion of the investigation establishes that, of the expenses presented, 1,748,580.63 euros are simulated orders and activities that did not take place.
The declarations for the years 2020 and 2022 show an increase in the turnover of Alberto González Amador's companies. His sales reached 2.3 million, having multiplied by six. However, he only declared a profit of 8,400 euros, as well as expenses that did not correspond to reality.
The enrichment comes from the collection of commissions for mediating in the purchase and sale of health material during the Pandemic. This figures in the financial year 2020 of the main company of González Amador, Maxwell Cremona. 1,973,000 euros are justified as a contract for intermediating with the Spanish company FCS in the purchase and sale of health material.
The companies under investigation are Maxwell Cremona Ingeniería y Procesos para el Fomento del Medioambiente and Masterman & Whitaker Medical Supplies and Health Process Engineering. The former is actually intended to provide health services despite its name, and the latter is a firm in the cosmetics and pharmacy sector that does not have any employees. According to the tax authorities, the latter was allegedly used by Amador to divert his profits in the Pandemic.
Gonzalez Amador agreed to be a commission agent for FCS at the end of January 2020, before the Pandemic or the State of Alarm was unleashed, the inspection describes his intervention as "a mere intermediary who would simply put in contact the two parties that are going to formalise the sale and purchase of products". The tax agency has paid particular attention to the secrecy of these contracts.
In May of the same year, the company paid 834,320 euros, which is justified as "marketing of clients", the same appears in the exercise carried out in August to justify 1,138,680 euros. FCS Select Products SL is the company that pays this invoice, as well as being the company that sold the most health material to public administrations, despite having dedicated itself to the marketing of alcoholic beverages only, before the Pandemic. The Madrid PP denounced this same company for its agreements with the central government, considering that they had been granted by hand.
Among the accused is Maximiliano Eduardo Niederer González, an alleged businessman who links two of the companies that issued false invoices to the companies under investigation, namely MKE Manufacturing SA, which issued an invoice for 620,000 euros and Gayani Ltd, which did for 922,585.63 euros.
Niederer was questioned by the tax authorities in April 2023 and initially denied knowing MKE Manufacturing SA or having signed contracts with Amador's companies. However, six days later, he retracted his statement and said that he did know the company, but that, if his name appeared on any contracts, it was due to an "involuntary error", as he was involved in other businesses other than the company. The complaint also names three Andalusian citizens, owners of six companies, who also simulated expenses for González Amador.
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