The Madrid Court confirmed this Friday the accusation against Alberto González Amador, associate of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for tax fraud and falsification of documents, as eldiario.es advanced and EL PAÍS confirmed.
Last September, judge Carmen Rodríguez-Medel prosecuted Ayuso’s partner after granting all requests from the prosecutors. Therefore, with that order he asked to be tried for tax fraud and falsification of commercial documents (the two crimes that led to the trial), but also for the criminal cases of continuous accounting crime and membership of a criminal organisation. These last two crimes had been requested in their indictments by the PSOE and Más Madrid, which are part of this trial as a popular accusation, but not by the Prosecutor’s Office and the State Prosecutor’s Office.
The Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office asked for three years and nine months in prison for Amador. Additionally, Ayuso’s partner faces another investigation at Court 19 over an alleged bribe to an executive at private healthcare giant Quirón. PSOE and Más Madrid ask for five years in prison.
The investigation began in May 2022 by the Treasury, which concluded that Amador had defrauded the public treasury of 350,910 euros with the help of 15 false invoices. The political storm came later, in March last year, when the prosecutor’s complaint was leaked and President Ayuso responded by saying it was a hunt against her.
Rodríguez-Medel also sent Amador’s four alleged collaborators to the bench. The Mexican Maximiliano Niederer and three Sevillians, David Herrera Lobato, and the brothers José Antonio and Agustín Carrillo Saborido.
(News being updated)
