The judge processes the Ayuso couple for fiscal fraud and falsification of documents | News from Madrid

The judge has issued an abbreviated procedure car, the equivalent of processing, Against Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s couple for two crimes of fiscal fraud and falsification of documents. The resolution, sent to the press and taken on Wednesday, ends the instruction and is the step prior to the trial against businessman Alberto González Amador, on whom it is still unknown if he will declare himself guilty to obtain a minor conviction that allows him to avoid jail, or if he will fight on the bench to defend his innocence, a more risky strategy.

This decision is about the end of the first investigation against Amador, which began in March last year and resulted in a political conflict that has marked the informative agenda since then. A piece separated by an alleged bribe of Amador continues to be instructed to an executive of the Quirónsalud health group, which was opened in October.

When closing the instruction, the judge’s work ends in the original piece. Immaculate Magistrate Iglesias, head of the 19 of instruction, sends the case to a different judicial body, competent to issue a sentence. In this case the possible penalty exceeds five years and the Provincial Court would be responsible. Judge Iglesias’s decision is known shortly before he retires to give relief to another judge, still unknown.

Amador was investigated by the Tax Agency between May 2022 and January 2024, when the inspectors sent the file to the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Madrid, by assessing that during two companies of the Corporate Tax he had committed a crime of fiscal fraud worth 350,910 euros in competition with another for falsification of commercial documents. Amador used 15 false invoices worth 1.7 million euros with the aim of fictitating their expenses and thus reduce their tax quota, according to the inspectors.

Judge Iglesias has also prosecuted businessmen who prepared the invoices considered false. This is the Mexican Maximiliano Eduardo Niederer, who issued two invoices for a business of 600,000 euros in Mexico and another of almost one million euros in Ivory Coast; and three Sevillians from the town of Arahal, David Herrera, and the brothers Agustín and José Ignacio Carrillo Saborido, who issued 13 invoices for minor amounts.

As for the fiscal advisor, the Leonese Javier Luis Gómez Fidalgo, the magistrate has dismissed the actions against him when considering that there were no criminal indications. Fidalgo had submitted the self -assessments of the tax of one of Amador’s two consultants, Masterman & Whitaker, which according to the Treasury was used as a screen company to declare less taxes. He was also in charge of defending Amador during the year and a half that the inspection of the Tax Agency lasted. Two weeks ago, He denied before the judge having cooperated in fiscal fraud and marked distances regarding the statements of the other consultant of Amador, Maxwell Cremona.

It remains to be seen if Amador will opt for a pact in accordance with the Prosecutor’s Office and the State Advocacy to avoid a sentence greater to two years, which could suppose its entry into prison. Only for the two fiscal fraud crimes is already exposed to a punishment between two and ten years. At the time of publication of this article, Amador’s two lawyers, Carlos Neira and Gabriel Rodríguez Ramos, have not answered a question about El País.

Through the pact, Amador would recognize his guilt and get a reduced conviction. That was his will on February 2, 2024, when his lawyer sent an email to the Prosecutor’s Office to recognize that « two crimes against the Public Treasury have been committed. » He also tried that agreement in June before the judge −ocho months in jail and a payment of 491,000 euros -, But the agreement jumped through the air when the popular accusations of PSOE and more Madrid warned the magistrate that the case could not be closed that way, since in his opinion other possible crimes had been committed.

The church car on Wednesday gives the parties three days in case they want to present an appeal before that same court. The Prosecutor’s Office and private accusations have ten days to request some last diligence or to send their accusation brief.

An immediate reaction from Ayuso has not been known, who has opted throughout these 15 months for a contradictory strategy. Sometimes he denounced that it was a state operation against her and others has avoided answering, claiming that it is the case of an individual and has nothing to do with his government. Your partner denounced for Revelation of secrets to the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortizwho is charged with the alleged filtration to the press of an email in the case, published after the Ayuso government spread a bully that damaged the Public Ministry.

One of the parties personally as a popular accusation, more Madrid, values ​​that Amador cannot escape the sentence for tax fraud. « This decision of the judge explains the nerves of Ayuso saying all kinds of barbarities of this case, » says Deputy Hugo Martínez Abarca. « It is obvious that it is not a political case and gives the impression that Amador was well advised when his lawyer recommended that he confess the crimes and reach an agreement because they are undeniable crimes, as the Treasury documentation proves. If he did not want to be as a criminal confessed, he will soon be as a condemned criminal. »

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