The judge investigating the businessman Alberto González Amador has opened a separate piece to investigate possible crimes in the relationship between Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner and the Quirón Group, the private healthcare giant that enjoys awards of hundreds of millions from the Community from Madrid.
In her order, the head of the Court of Instruction number 19 of Madrid partially upholds the appeal filed by PSOE and Más Madrid, who exercise the popular accusation, who requested that the investigation for double tax fraud and falsification of documents be expanded to five new crimes. .
At the end of 2020, González Amador’s main company, Maxwell Cremona, bought another company, which until then was called Círculo Belleza SL and was dedicated to the sale of cosmetic products. After its purchase, the company was renamed Masterman & Whitaker and, a few months later, without having a single employee, he managed to work for Quirón Prevention for “expansion in Latin America” and the “development and implementation of the Joint Commission International.” But that month of December 2021, another corporate movement began that hides a new attempt to benefit fiscally, as concluded by the Treasury and the Prosecutor’s Office.
The “front” company and the main company of González Amador signed a contract to partially transfer the consulting contract for Quirón. Only 24 hours later, in addition, that main company transferred all the shares of the “screen” company to González Amador himself. From that moment, therefore, Ayuso’s partner became the sole partner and administrator of both companies, “being able to freely dispose of the funds of both.”
The first suspicion is that, in reality, González Amador was the one who worked for Quirón and perpetrated a “relative simulation” of the services provided when playing with his two companies. At the tax level, at that time, the operation had no practical effects, since both companies were taxed the same. But, according to the Tax Agency, the objective would also be to generate fictitious expenses in the shell company to, in future years, “create negative tax bases pending compensation.”
The use of shell companies or instrumental companies to underpay the Treasury is something that the Tax Agency and the courts continually examine, both from a tax and criminal point of view. Due to contentious-administrative or criminal matters, as is this second case. This is part of the tax crime of which González Amador is formally accused.
But the result of the operation was more false invoices. Masterman, the “front” company, issued an invoice to Maxwell, the main company, for 600,000 euros for its services. But, previously, Masterman had only collected 327,000 euros from Quirón. “This would be generating in Masterman, in an artificial and unjustified manner, negative tax bases for future years in favor of said company,” the administration settled.
The popular accusation presented on June 24, on the same day that González Amador intended to close a conformity agreement and recognize the two tax crimes and the falsification of documents, a document in which it requested to expand the investigation. PSOE and Más Madrid appreciated, among other extremes, a possible crime of corruption in business in the operation described above, with Quirón Prevention participating in it. The judge rejected the extension of the investigation, but the popular prosecution appealed and it is in this Tuesday’s order that the magistrate accepts their appeal for reform and orders the opening of a separate piece.
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