Ayuso's partner acted in a "mendacious" manner to avoid paying the Treasury with false invoices

The Tax Agency has spent about a year and a half removing the rugs from the business of the current partner of the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
17 March 2024 Sunday 16:21
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Ayuso's partner acted in a "mendacious" manner to avoid paying the Treasury with false invoices

The Tax Agency has spent about a year and a half removing the rugs from the business of the current partner of the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The reason? An "extraordinary" increase in business volume as a result of the pandemic and that was not in line with the increase in tax payments. In short, Alberto González Amador in 2020 and 2021 had a sharp increase in his business volume and paid less and less taxes. This set off all the alarms for the treasury, which ended up discovering "mendacious" behavior with the aim of "reducing, even completely neutralizing, said taxation."

This is the conclusion reached by the Tax Agency (AEAT) to the Madrid Prosecutor's Office, after detecting two possible tax crimes, together with a possible crime of document falsification, as stated in the reports sent to the public ministry and to which La Vanguardia has had access. This treasury inspection is the origin of the complaint that the Prosecutor's Office has presented and which is pending its admission for processing.

What the inspector discovered is that González Amador did not deduct taxes for concepts that did not correspond to him, as he also did, such as a Porsche, the entry of an apartment or trips. If these expenses are detected to be non-deductible, they are resolved through administrative means.

In this case, González Amador went further. Since registering the company Maxwell Cremona SL in 2017, it has woven a network to avoid paying the Treasury through different operations. On the one hand, he used front companies, created with the sole purpose of defrauding, which issued him invoices for work not performed, which could be deducted in this way. But they were fake. They are what are commonly called VAT carousels.

On the other hand, it reduced expenses because according to the AEAT report, González Amador did not have employees but rather hired them as external auditors. The services he offered were to perform air control audits. However, sources in the sector explain that for this he needs technicians to develop it, and that there is no evidence that he had them in his company.

The inspectors discovered that González Amador's brother appears among the external advisors who issued the invoice. When asked during the inspection, he maintained that it was a canceled invoice because the work was never done.

The only one on the payroll was González Amador himself as manager. And yet, the more turnover the company had, the less salary he had, which went from 100,000 euros to 9,500 euros. The reason is that he created another instrumental company, Masterman, to collect from her.

There are two milestones in your financial analysis that caught the attention of the inspectors. On the one hand, the "extraordinary" increase he had by intermediating in a mask business. What he did was put a company with medical supplies, FCS, in contact with another that needed such supplies. For this intermediation work, in January 2020 he obtained 1.9 million euros. What is "frankly surprising" to the Treasury inspector is not the "so unusual" growth between 2020 and 2021, but rather that "having obtained such an exceptional income, the corporate tax base and the tax quota have not been seen increased in the same proportion".

The second suspicious contract was the one signed by Quirón Prevention. What González, Amador did, according to the AEAT report, is to use a front company to sign the contract, Masterman SL, in 2021. According to the treasury, this was used as an "intermediate" company, "pretending to be the provider of services against a third party (Quirón Prevention SL) when it does not have the appropriate personal or material means to do so".

What González Amador did is sign an agreement to transfer the contract that Maxwell had signed with Quirón Prevention since 2017 "procedure for the issuance of a fictitious invoice for an estimated amount and without responding to the reality of the services provided."

For the Treasury, this is a "simulated" action that reveals the "proven and manifest intention of using the intermediary company Masterman to simulate that it is this company that provided the services of Quirón Prevention SLU and collect from said company part of the funds generated by that company." with the purpose of pocketing and remitting them in favor of the sole partner and administrator Alberto González Amador".

In 2020, Chirón earned 275,000 euros. However, the following year he increased his contract to include work related to expansion in Latin America and a proposal for the development and implementation of the International Joint Commission at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation. For these works, González Amador signs an invoice between his two companies for 726,000 euros.

It turns out that Quirón has a contracting agreement with the Community of Madrid, currently being the leading private hospital group in the community, an ascension that began in the time of Esperanza Aguirre.