The judge opens a trial against Ayuso's partner for tax fraud.

MadridNot all legal issues affect the PSOE. Judge Carmen Rodríguez-Medel has opened an oral trial against Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner, businessman Alberto González Amador, for tax fraud, ongoing accounting offenses, and membership in a criminal organization, along with four other suspects. The Prosecutor's Office also accuses him of document falsification. In parallel, the investigation into a separate case for business corruption is ongoing.

The partner of the President of the Community of Madrid is accused of having defrauded the Treasury of almost €351,000 in corporate tax for the 2020 and 2021 fiscal years. Following the indictment issued last May, the Public Prosecutor's Office published its provisional conclusions. The popular accusations brought by the PSOE and Más Madrid increase the request to five years because they introduce ongoing accounting offenses and criminal organization.

The case arose from a complaint by the Prosecutor's Office following a report from the Tax Agency indicating that "fictitious expenses based on invoices issued by various companies" had been detected. "Expenses that do not correspond to services actually provided and, all of this, with the aim of paying into the public treasury a lower amount than what should have been paid for corporation tax for the 2020 and 2021 financial years," the Public Prosecutor's Office charged.

The fact that a proposed settlement agreement between the Prosecutor's Office and González Amador's defense team to avoid going to trial became known through the media, which gave rise to the legal case in which the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, will be tried. A distorted leak from Ayuso's entourage led the Public Prosecutor's Office to deny that it was the Prosecutor's Office who proposed the agreement, but rather the businessman's defense team. For this reason, García Ortiz will be tried for alleged disclosure of secrets, a case that has shaken the judicial establishment and placed the Spanish government and the presidency of the Community of Madrid at odds.

In this sense, it did not take long for the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, to celebrate this Monday's judicial resolution, who through X has paraphrased Ayuso's chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez: "Forward", he tweeted, just as Rodríguez did every time new charges or judicial developments against Sánchez's entourage became known. The spokesperson for Más Madrid, Manuela Bergerot, criticized Ayuso for speaking of "savage inspections by the Treasury" as a "smokescreen" for what could end in "... a period away from the penthouse," she added, referring to the apartment where González Amador and Ayuso live and which could have been paid for with defrauded money.