Alberto González Amador agreed to pay thousands of euros to two companies created by his boss in Quirón, Fernando Camino, as soon as he created his health consulting firm, Maxwell Cremona. The contracts and invoices appear in the documentation sent to the Madrid judge who is investigating Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner for two tax crimes and another for document falsification that the commission agent has recognized in a document with which he intended to agree on an eight-month sentence. of jail that did not imply his entry into prison.
These payments come from a long time ago, as confirmed by a contract signed by Maxwell Cremona on March 1, 2017, a month and a half after starting its operations, with the company Inversiones Random SL, established in May 2005 by Fernando Camino. This Quirón executive is still today the administrator of that firm, domiciled in the old town of Seville and dedicated to boat rental. For its part, the Maxwell firm began operating on January 16, 2017, according to the Commercial Registry.
The director of the healthcare giant did not appear in that contract, but rather the other administrator of Inversiones Random, Jesús González, as “owner.” The document noted that Maxwell Cremona considered it “interesting to develop management training activities to impact its current and potential clients” and that Random “owns a Jeanneau 52.2 sailing boat.” This yacht, about 15 meters long and up to five cabins, can be found on the second-hand market in its older versions for between 170,000 euros and 185,000 euros, according to the specialized website Boats.com.
It was agreed that in exchange for paying 2,000 euros per year to Inversiones Random, Maxwell “will place advertising of its brand on the Adagio II ship, during the contract period permanently on the ship and assuming the cost of the placement and its preparation.” It would do so through vinyl lettering on the outside and a flag on the mainmast “while the sailboat is moored” in port. The sponsor could use the boat “for the exhibition of its advertising as well as to carry out cruises on the agreed days with its guests, always respecting safety regulations.”
The documentation in court does not allow us to specify how much Maxwell Cremona paid for that contract. There are at least three invoices for a total of 6,000 euros (plus VAT) issued in 2019 (January and July) and in May 2020, already in the midst of the pandemic, under the concept “rental of the ADAGIO II boat for advertising sponsorship.”
Quirón sources assure that Inversiones Random “has had different rentals and sponsorship/advertising contracts” with the companies GAM, Inmohuelva, Idamar, Cenáutica, Paradores, Millenium Seguros and Puerto Isla Canela. Regarding a possible violation of its ethical code by Fernando Camino, the health group does not comment.
It is likely that Maxwell’s payments to Inversiones Random were higher, since the contract dates back to 2017 and the Tax Agency’s investigation of González Amador covered the years 2020 and 2021. Inversiones Random SL declared zero euros of turnover between 2021 and 2023. This indicates that the payments stopped after the opening of the inspection of Ayuso’s partner. In 2020, he declared 2,000 euros of turnover, as much as he invoiced the company of commission agent González Amador. A year before, he invoiced 4,840 euros, according to his accounts.
These payments are not the only compensation from González Amador to companies created by the head of its main and almost only client, Quirón Prevention. In 2019, he also hired the services of Círculo Belleza SL, a beauty treatment company with hardly any activity that was in the name of Camino’s wife and for which González Amador would end up paying half a million euros at the end of 2020. The businessman bought it after pocketing 2 million in commissions for mediating the worst of the pandemic in the sale of masks for a Galician company (Mape) of which the Quirón executive is a director.
More than a year before that big hit, on January 1, 2019, Maxwell Cremona and Círculo Belleza SL signed a contract by which, while carrying out audits of the Quirón hospitals, González Amador’s company will receive “advisory” services from Círculo Belleza on “research and analysis of market evolution”; training plans, “business management systems, including short- and long-term planning, strategic plans and tactical action programs” or “decision making of a managerial and strategic nature.”
According to the contract, González Amador’s company required “essential” services that, without Círculo Belleza SL, “would be forced to hire external consultants, with a lower degree of sectoral specialization and knowledge of the group’s procedures.” The agreement had an initial validity of one year. He did not specify figures. Círculo Belleza would charge “an amount that will be agreed upon based on the projects requested.”
There are at least four invoices that Maxwell pays to Círculo Belleza for the same concept, “Consulting and Advice Work for Managers on Health Issues.” The first, for 2,000 euros (plus VAT), was issued days after that agreement, on January 16, 2019. The second, on July 1, 2019, for 2,000 euros, the day before Maxwell paid the same amount to Inversiones Random for that advertising on his sailboat. On December 19, 2019, Círculo Belleza invoices Maxwell another 1,000 euros. And on October 8, 2020, the largest invoice arrives, 15,000 euros. In total, 20,000 euros plus VAT.
Figures, in any case, much lower than the 499,836.92 euros that Ayuso’s partner paid on December 4, 2020 for Círculo Belleza. The explanation he gave to the Tax Agency for such a high price for a company with no assets, staff or hardly any turnover was that it was “a bet”; “He is the one who liaised with the pharmacies to implement Covid Seguro.”
“In addition, this company has a contract with Mape. This amount was paid for the agreements that Círculo Belleza SL had with these companies, given that at that time they were very attractive,” González Amador assured in November 2022 when asked by the inspection.
“A lot of help”
A few weeks before, the businessman assured the Tax Agency that “the person responsible for the company (Partner and Administrator) is a pharmacist who knows very well the hospital pharmacy sector, private electronic prescription and pharmaceutical distribution.”
He stated that he had advised them on a study “relating to medication errors and recurrent failures in the pharmaceutical supply system in hospitals” and “in the healthcare distribution market, since Maxwell Cremona has clients such as MAPE or Quirón to whom which has been very helpful to them.”
A few weeks ago, the founder of Mape, Gumersindo Cachafeiro, told this newspaper: “We do not have nor have we had any relationship with Ayuso’s boyfriend.” The executive confirmed that part of the masks that González Amador charged for were purchased by the Xunta de Galicia, which was then presided over by Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
After acquiring Circulo Belleza, González Amador changed its name and, according to the Tax Agency, used it as a screen to artificially reduce the taxes he had to pay for new orders he received from Quirón for consulting work in Latin America. The money billed by the Ayuso couple’s companies to the health group multiplied by four after their relationship with the Madrid president began.
Added to these relationships is the company that Fernando Camino created in the tax haven of Panama and that González Amador managed until 2022, in the midst of fraud against the Treasury. Quirón has assured that this company is completely unrelated to the healthcare giant. A subsidiary of its there was vetoed by the Panamanian Administration for corrupt practices in 2021.
Quirón Salud has an anti-corruption policy for its employees that says: “All Professionals must avoid situations that may generate a conflict of interest, which is why we cannot personally receive money, or any other type of asset or financial or in-kind consideration. from patients, clients, suppliers, intermediaries, or any other third party, not even as a loan, except if said transaction is carried out in the context of a transparent and legal commercial relationship carried out at market prices.
This type of compensation “cannot be made either directly or through partners, collaborators, representatives, family members, intermediaries, agents, advisors or any other type of intermediary.”
Círculo Belleza was domiciled in a pharmacy owned by Camino’s wife in Pola de Gordón (León). Its sole administrator, Gloria Carrasco, initially had 60% of the shares, and Camino and his brother-in-law each held 20%. In 2020, shortly before selling it, the pharmaceutical company became the sole partner.
The mask bomb multiplied Maxwell’s income by seven and with it began González Amador’s tax fraud with a plot of false invoices and front companies. The judge investigating the criminal case has summoned the businessman on November 29 to agree on a sentence for his tax crimes that the commission agent has admitted in exchange for paying half a million and a nominal prison sentence.
According to the Treasury report that was sent to the Prosecutor’s Office, the “commercial relationship” between González Amador and Círculo Belleza “goes back to at least 2014”, when the company created by Camino “declared only receipts for sales to Mape” and “ payments for purchases, among others, to Massias Khune SL”, predecessor of Maxwell Cremona. She then became an advisor to Chiron’s consultant.
The relationship between González Amador and Camino extends to the luxury penthouse enjoyed by the Madrid president and her partner. They both live in an apartment in Chamberí that the businessman bought after the mask scandal. And they enjoy a second floor in the same building, which they use to receive visits, dinners and other meetings and for which Díaz Ayuso has never given explanations. The penthouse was purchased in July 2023 by Babia Capital SL, in which it appears as the owner Jorge Carlos Pablos Alonso, hospitality businessman from León, the city in which Camino and Carrasco reside.
That company, which received a loan of 955,000 euros from an unidentified third party To buy the property, it is managed by Javier Luis Gómez Fidalgo, the prosecutor who represented González Amador in the Tax Agency investigation. That lawyer also has Camino as a client. His office is in León. In Ponferrada is Maxwell Cremona’s accountant, Blanca López.
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