Ayuso’s couple defends the payment that the judge investigates as a possible bribe to a chiron executive | News from Madrid

Alberto González Amador, a partner of the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has defended this Thursday before the judge the payment of 500,000 euros to an executive of Quirón, an operation that is in the center of the investigations on a possible bribery. That company did not have personal or material means of value, but according to Amador, it did have a network of clients that justified that price, they inform legal sources known to the interrogation. The businessman He has also revealed that he pays 5,000 euros per month for the attic that they use and Ayuso, just above a floor of their property. The homemade is another investigated in the case, the economist Javier Gómez Fidalgo, who did a « favor » when acquiring that home and then offered it on rental regime with a purchase option. The enjoyment of that house for Ayuso had aroused opposition questions about who paid the property and change of what. When leaving the Court of Instruction number 19, the investigated has told the only group of journalists authorized to access the hall that was « happy and happy with what was declared. »

Amador has spoken this Thursday for the first time in 13 months of instruction of Judge María Immaculate Iglesias. The statement corresponds to the separate piece that the magistrate opened in October and that added to the previous procedure for defrauding the Treasury 350,910 euros. In this new case, the judge investigates whether Amador acted illegally at business among its quality consultants, Maxwell Cremona and Masterman & Whitaker and the Quironic health group. For two and a quarter hours, Amador has answered questions from the judge, the prosecutor and his lawyers, but has refused to answer the popular accusations of PSOE and more Madrid, whose personation has resorted to the Provincial Court.

Amador had been summoned by the judge on five previous occasions, but had never spoken. Sometimes the appointment was suspended for a variety of reasons and another, the fifth time, he refused to declare. When leaving the room, on the edge of 12.30, he responded to a group of three journalists of agencies, the only ones authorized by the dean judge of Plaza de Castilla to access the corridor: « It has been wonderfully well. » The dean of the courts decreed that only a small group of informants as representatives of the rest of the media would enter the building. That arrangement was communicated days after the strange incident of May last year, when Amador tried to mock the press using a wig. This Thursday, Amador has avoided stopping to serve the journalists who awaited on the street.

Within the view room, Amador has revealed that confirm the proximity between him and the executive president of Chirón who allegedly bribed, Fernando Camino, president of Quirón prevention. Ayuso’s couple has defined himself as a « implant ”, That is, an external professional who works physically within the office of a host company, in this case chirón -prevention, the branch of that health group that is dedicated to health at work. The sources consulted report that Amador has told that he has an office at the company’s main headquarters, on Agustín de Betancourt 25 street, by new ministries. He sits just 20 meters from the road office.

Chironprencia has been for years the main client of Amador Quality Consultants. In addition, he has done business for other ways in which he also appears on his way. One is the sale of masks that allowed Amador to pocket almost two million as an intermediary, in two payments (May and August 2020). In this regard, the investigated has told the judge that he designed a “normal” commission, of 4.5% of the operation, taking into account what is usually charged in the market. The buyer was MAPE, a Galician health company in its board of directors. Today, Amador has assured that Camino did not intervene in that business.

The suspicious operation that is in the center of the investigation occurred months later, in December 2020. Amador acquired Circle of Beauty SL, a company dedicated to aesthetic treatments owned by the wife of Camino, Gloria Carrasco. He paid for her 499,836 euros despite its low market value, according to the finance inspectors who carried out the investigations before the judge took care of them.

This company, created in 2008, did not even have its own place. He shared headquarters with the pharmacy of which Carrasco was a title, a small apothecary in the Leon town of La Pola de Gordón, of 2,842 inhabitants. Beauty circle had barely counted in its origins with a couple of laser hair removal equipment, another body remodeling and a laptop. All those old machines had zero accounting value.

Amador has argued before the judge that the circle value of beauty resided in Carrasco’s contacts with hundreds of pharmacies throughout Spain, according to legal sources. He has said that his idea was to take advantage of that network for a project called “Covid Safe”, which was going to consist of offering a quality certificate to those apothecies.

Instead of executing that project, Amador used that company for another purpose. He changed his name to the circle of beauty for another of his invention, Masterman & Whitaker and left the company without media or employees throughout 2021, according to the Treasury during the inspection that preceded this judicial instruction. At the end of that year, Amador signed a contract to pretend that this company had had activity in order to obtain undue tax benefits, according to the Tax Agency, which concluded that this company had been used as a screen. That fake activity had nothing to do with the “Safe Covid” project. Questioned Thursday about why he did not carry it out, Amador has explained that he did not have time to devote himself to it due to his workload, judicial sources detail with knowledge of his statement.

The sources consulted report that most of the questions have been asked by the judge and the prosecutor. There has been an uncomfortable moment when Amador has engaged with the prosecutor, who has reminded him that he has denounced his boss for revelation to his boss, The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz.

This Thursday’s appearance had been requested by Amador’s lawyers, who want to give preference to the second piece. As they had argued, the judge should first elucidate if Quirón’s income is lawful because they understand that, otherwise, a crime of fiscal fraud would not have been committed. They are based on the fact that this illicit money should not be taxed, argue, and should be discounted from the fraud, according to the doctrine of the Supreme Court. In this way, they estimate, Amador would not exceed the criminal threshold of the 120,000 euros fraud.

The judge has not attended to Amador’s request to suspend the first piece, according to a car signed on Wednesday to which the country has had access. Iglesias responds that this doctrine arising for drug trafficking cases (Nécora Case) or embezzlement of public funds (Roldán Case) is applied in this case. The magistrate explains that Amador is not attributed to having obtained income that she did not declare, « but to invent expenses in collaboration with the rest of those investigated to illically reduce their taxation. »

Three weeks ago, Iglesias He took a statement to the Treasury Inspector that led the fiscal investigation, who ratified the report indicating that Amador used 15 false invoices worth 1.7 million euros to reduce his tax quota in the Corporation Tax of the 2020 and 2021. Within the framework of that original piece, the judge will interrogate on May 6 the economist who presented those statements in the name of Amador, Fidalgo, who is also his landlord.

Ayuso, traveling in Ecuador

Amador’s statement has coincided with the Plenary of Thursdays in the Regional Assembly, which Ayuso has not come. Her team reported a week ago that the president would travel to Ecuador from Tuesday to Friday of this week. That trip was announced after this partner’s judicial event was known.

In the Assembly, the Madrid president It has been the center of criticism of the opposition. Ayuso, according to his team, has gone to Ecuador to sign the “professional accreditation of Ecuadorians in Madrid”, a document that allows the 33,000 living in the region to expedite bureaucratic procedures to achieve employment. The president of the president at 8,739 kilometers away is very interesting because on January 15 the Minister of Economy, Rocío Albert, already sealed this agreement with the ambassador of Ecuador in the capital, as recorded on the community website.

With the empty chair, opposition questions have been very predictable this Thursday. Manuela Bergerot, from more Madrid, has thus inquired to the regional government spokesman, Miguel Ángel García Martín, who has had to defend the absence of the presidency:

« I ask you the empty chair, what measures are going to drive to fight corruption? »

Garcia has answered with Pedro Sánchez. « We are located at the antipodes of Sánchez and Minister Mónica García. More Madrid is the crusty government crust of democracy. » The opposition leader has signed the tooth with the absence of Ayuso. « It is the third time that the president escapes! He went to Germany, to Extremadura, and even if she is in Quito, her heart is in the courts of Plaza de Castilla! » The spokeswoman of the PSOE has also stated the tooth in the empty hole of the regional president. « Chile, Germany, Israel, London. Vacations paid by all. The lady hides in Ecuador! » The regional spokesman has defended the trip to Ecuador and has attacked Sánchez’s institutional journey to China: « Do you know what you will not see? Ayuso travel in Falcon. Look, I tell you without acrimony. They will all go parstente, for the communist China. » Although if you look at the newspaper library, Ayuso already met with the Chinese ambassador two years in your office.

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