415,000 euros. It is the amount that the commissioner Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, threatens to claim in court from a dozen members of the Government and leaders of the PSOE and Más Madrid whom he accuses of defaming him after speaking publicly about the double tax fraud which he himself has recognized. A judicial offensive that runs parallel to the case opened against him and to which a separate piece has recently been added to investigate possible crimes in his relationship with the Quirón Group, the private healthcare giant that receives hundreds of millions of euros in awards from the Community of Madrid.
The list of those sued by González Amador includes the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, five ministers—María Jesús Montero, Félix Bolaños, Isabel Rodríguez, Diana Morant and Óscar López—; the socialist deputy Javier Zaragoza; the spokesperson for Más Madrid in the Madrid Assembly, Manuela Bergerot; his counterpart in the Madrid City Council, Rita Maestre; and the communication director of the PSOE, Ion Antolín. He has also denounced two political groups: the PSOE and Más Madrid.
The largest amount, a total of 100,000 euros, is what González Amador threatens to demand from the head of the Executive, whom he has demanded to recant after having called him a “criminal.” If he does not do so, he will file a complaint against him for libel and slander in which he will claim the aforementioned amount, according to the conciliation request presented by the commission agent in the courts of Madrid, revealed by The World. The request for a conciliation act is an act prior to the presentation of a complaint.
The statements that motivate the businessman’s initiative occurred on October 17, when Sánchez defended the State Attorney General after the Supreme Court’s decision to initiate an investigation into the leak of an email related to the businessman’s tax fraud case. Sánchez affirmed that Álvaro García Ortiz had done his job: “Pursue the criminal and combat misinformation and a hoax.” González Amador considers that these statements are a “breach of the most basic duties” of “respect and protection of the fundamental rights of a Spanish citizen.”
The reality is that the businessman confessed to having committed a double tax crime. He did so in an email sent to the Prosecutor’s Office on February 2, 2024, more than a month before elDiario.es revealed the case, and which aimed to reach an agreement that would allow him to close the investigation soon. “Certainly two crimes have been committed against the Public Treasury,” appears in the document, which also states its willingness to “recompensate for the damage caused by paying the full fee and late payment interest” to the Tax Agency. He offered to pay more than 500,000 euros. The almost 351,000 euros of tax fraud, the almost 25,000 euros of interest and the 140,000 euros of fine.
When these demands were published, Ayuso’s chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, sent messages to journalists in which he stated that the Treasury fine was going to be paid by the opposition. “If everything goes normally, between the Government and PSOE they will pay you three times more than what the Treasury is asking for,” can be read in one of those messages.
González Amador had been reported for defrauding more than 350,000 euros between 2020 and 2021 through a network of false invoices and front companies. It invoiced 3.7 million euros, of which almost two came from a single operation to mediate a contract for the purchase and sale of masks. But when the time came to justify those profits to the Treasury, he tried to deceive the treasury. He did so by allocating expenses of hundreds of thousands of euros for jobs that never existed, but that benefited him fiscally.
Montero and Rodríguez, the first defendants
The businessman’s judicial offensive against left-wing politicians who speak publicly about their problems with Justice began with Vice President María Jesús Montero, from whom the businessman demands 40,000 euros; and the Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, from whom he demands 20,000 euros. The events date back to last March, days after elDiario.es revealed the existence of the Prosecutor’s complaint and that Ayuso and his partner live in a million-euro apartment that he bought after the tax fraud.
On March 12, Vice President Montero was asked about this matter in the Senate and stated that this journalistic revelation required Ayuso to give “explanations” and act with transparency “regarding whether she is living in an apartment that was paid for with Treasury fraud.” Public and with the commissions regarding masks.” For her part, Minister Rodríguez stated on March 19, in the press conference after the Council of Ministers, that “the majority of Spaniards do not commit crimes to access housing.”
These statements gave rise to lawsuits for alleged violation of the right to honor by the Madrid president’s partner. Both Montero and Rodríguez have refused to reach a conciliation agreement, so it is expected that in the near future the businessman will present lawsuits against both before the Supreme Court, the judicial body before which they are authorized due to their status as members of the Executive.
“Confessed criminal”
Other ministers against whom González Amador has filed lawsuits for interference in the right to honor for calling him a “confessed criminal” are Félix Bolaños, from whom he threatens to demand 50,000 euros; and Óscar López, from whom he plans to demand another 50,000 if they do not retract their statements.
In the case of Minister Diana Morant, from whom he asks for 15,000 euros, he questions whether she tried to involve her partner in “a non-existent corruption plot,” as revealed The Confidential. In reality, what the minister did was question the “thunderous silence” of Díaz Ayuso and the lack of “explanations about her partner’s relationship with one of the companies that is benefiting the most from this savage privatization of healthcare in the Community. of Madrid”, in reference to Grupo Quirón. This company multiplied its payments to González Amador by four after beginning the relationship with the Madrid president.
González Amador’s legal actions have also been directed against Más Madrid, the first opposition party in both the Assembly and the City Council of the capital. In this case, the lawsuits are directed against their spokespersons in both institutions, Manuela Bergerot and Rita Maestre. The regional deputy spread the businessman’s initiative on her social networks. “I just received a complaint from Ayuso’s boyfriend and he wants to ask me for 20,000 euros. A complaint to try to silence us, so that we do not say what all of Spain already knows. Mr. Amador: you already have too much work in the courts to go around complaining. Be careful with Chiron”, he published in X.
The commission agent asks him to retract a message published on that same social network on October 24 in which he called him a criminal and to undertake not to spread again “false information and/or defamatory, humiliating, insulting, slanderous statements.” or offensive” linked to his person. If she does not do so, he will sue her in court and demand 20,000 euros.
Almost two months earlier, González Amador had also threatened to sue Maestre after the councilor published a message on X in which she asked a series of questions regarding the use and enjoyment by Ayuso and his partner from an attic located just above the apartment that they both share and which is in the name of a company owned by the businessman’s lawyer.
“Who paid for Ayuso and her boyfriend’s penthouse and in exchange for what? “Why is Ayuso hiding the name of her generous patron?” the spokesperson asked. “I am neither going to shut up nor stop doing my job,” said Maestre in a speech in Red Hot (laSexta) after receiving the conciliation demand. If she does not recant, the commission agent will file a lawsuit against her and demand 15,000 euros, the same amount as from her training, Más Madrid.
Más Madrid is not the only training that González Amador has sued. The businessman also demands 30,000 euros from the PSOE and another 30,000 from the PSOE communications director, Ion Antolín, whom he holds responsible for the press releases that the group has published about his case of tax fraud. In the socialist ranks, the judicial offensive of the Ayuso couple has also been directed against the deputy José Zaragoza, for a comment in Corruption”. If he does not recant, they demand 10,000 euros from him.
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