Ayuso’s couple admitted in the Supreme Court that his lawyer informed him that agreeing to recognize the crimes | Spain

The businessman Alberto González Amador, a partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso and charged with fiscal fraud, corruption in business and unfair administration, admitted in the Supreme Court that his lawyer had explained that reaching a pact in accordance with the Prosecutor’s Office implied the recognition of his crimes. This was said by González Amador In his statement as a witness on Friday In the case in which the Attorney General is investigated, where he detailed the conversation he had with his lawyer, Carlos Neira, after the publication of the mail sent by the lawyer to the Prosecutor’s Office in which he admitted that his client had committed two fiscal crimes.

According to González Amador’s story, collected in the transcription of his statement, to which this newspaper has had access, he took “a monumental anger” with his lawyer for having written that mailto which the lawyer replied: « I told you that there were different paths and if we took the path of conformity I explained that one of the guidelines within the Prosecutor’s Office is that we must recognize the crimes, even if it is innocent, it is an indispensable criterion (..) That is why my email goes in that sense and with that information. »

González Amador’s statements confirm what was declared by the lawyer on Tuesday against Judge Ángel Hurtadowho investigates the Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, for the alleged filtration of the email sent by Neira to the Prosecutor’s Office on February 2, 2024. The lawyer admitted that he did not send him or realized the email sent to the Public Ministry and that he focuses the investigation, but assured that he explained to his client the consequences of an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office.

However, González Amador himself, according to the act of the statement, repeated up to three times that, when that leaked that mail And he reproached his lawyer for his content, Neira reminded him that he had already explained that to reach an agreement, the crime had to be recognized. « Alberto, if we threw down the path of conformity, remember that I told you that you would have to recognize the facts. (…) It is fast. You go to a criminal trial, you ratify and leave. You go unnoticed, » the lawyer told him, according to the businessman’s story.

During his statement, González Amador also admits that his priority was that his case did not splashed his partner, and complains that he has been used “Ariete” against the president of the Community of Madrid. « There are more news of mine than the war in Ukraine, » he laments before the judge. The businessman recognizes that his lawyer stressed that, for his goal of seeking a discreet and fast solution, the best pact with the prosecutor was best, but discharges the final decision in the lawyer.

« I was open to my lawyer to take the option. I am not a jurist. This version differs from that of the lawyer, who assured that he offered his client the two possible options: defending himself in court or looking for a pact with the prosecutor, and that, after explaining the consequences of each one, the businessman opted for the second.

Client and lawyer also disagree with respect to how the lawyer was informing González Amador throughout the process. The businessman said he contacted the lawyer after receiving, in September 2023, a tax liquidation linked to crime, which implies the judicialization of the farm investigation that he knew he had open for more than a year.

During his statement, Ayuso’s couple only mentions a meeting with Neira in October of that year, where they sit down to study the situation. As he said, he left the case in the hands of the lawyer and did not know practically anything again until March 12, 2024, when the Diario.es He publishes the prosecution’s complaint against González Amador. That his lawyer had proposed a pact learned, he said, two days later, when Neira’s mail is filtered.

The lawyer, however, explained in the Supreme Court that he had periodically informing his client of the steps he was taking, and, specifically, he cited a meeting held on January 30, 2024, where he explained that he was going to propose a pact to the Prosecutor’s Office that involved admitting two fiscal crimes and paying a fine to reduce the prison sentence. From that meeting, omitted by Ayuso’s couple during their statement, they came, according to Neira, the terms of the email that the lawyer sent to the Prosecutor’s Office three days later, on February 2.

« Fast and noise »

Amador said at different times of his statement that the public exposure has made great emotional and economic damage. He said he has lost contracts because of media coverage and said that his idea was that anything would have never been known. « Fast and no noise, » was the slogan he told Neira. According to the statement, he suffered an emotional squeak on the afternoon of Monday, March 11, when a journalist from Eldiario.es told him that the next day they would publish that the Prosecutor’s Office was going to report him for tax fraud.

He also revealed that he coordinated early with Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, aka Mar, chief of Cabinet of Ayuso, who has been criticized for turning into the defense of González Amador. The businessman refers to him as « Miguel Ángel. » The businessman informed him in May 2022, when Hacienda notified him the beginning of the inspection. He recalled that it was around the Champions League final that Real Madrid won to Liverpool, on May 28.

« I just told her ‘Hey this happened to me and that was when he told me …’ Well, this falls to everyone, it won’t be for her, no …  » is already. And that was the first time he saw the report.

He also contacted Maria on the morning of March 12, when the news of the prosecution’s complaint against him exploded, and the next day, when he gives permission to filter the press a WhatsApp with the mail of March 12 and aware that he was interviewed by a journalist from El Mundo.

González Amador also gave some detail about that stage in which he was investigated by the Treasury (May 2022-January 2024), before the Prosecutor’s Office took the reins. He assured that he was aware that the case would end before a judge in September 2023, when the inspector of the Tax Agency communicated the liquidation linked to crime, that is, the act by which the defrauded money is estimated: 350,910 euros. « Then, let’s say that for me I have no legal knowledge, it’s like judicializing the case, » said the businessman.

According to his story, until then he believed that the case was going to be resolved in the administrative route, that is, before the Tax Agency, thanks to the extra payment he made in his declaration of the Corporation Tax of July 2023, with which he intended to pay more to compensate for the amounts he had not quoted in the previous two years. « When the year 23 arrived, I had already paid the Corporation Tax, we had finished everything, this seemed to end in the administrative route, » he said in the Supreme.

The truth is that Amador knew that this maneuver was a sterile attempt to solve his problem because his fiscal advisor had told him a year earlier, according to The details of the fiscal inspection to which the country had access. His advisor was very clear: « It should not be done, nor has any effect, and you can even misunderstand. »