The Madrid Bar Association has threatened to take “the pertinent measures” on Monday in response to what it considers a revelation of “extremely serious” data by the Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office related to the taxpayer Alberto González Amador, the president’s partner. regional, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, since spring 2021. González Amador allegedly tried to deceive the Tax Agency by charging alleged expenses based on false invoices and services never provided. In this way, he intended to save 350,000 euros in the years 2020 and 2021, when his companies increased their income sixfold thanks to mediation in the purchase of masks during the pandemic.
Ayuso’s chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, revealed on Wednesday night an email that prosecutor Julián Salto, in charge of the entire case related to González Amador’s tax crimes, sent to the lawyer to inform him that he had already presented the complaint against his client in court and, therefore, he could benefit from an agreement to reduce the sentence that corresponded to him.
Summary of today’s madness: the prosecution offers an agreement by email to Mr. Gonzalez; Before he can respond, the same Prosecutor’s Office says that he has received orders “from above” so that there is no agreement and, then, they go to trial.
— ALREADY (@marodriguezb) March 13, 2024
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez himself denounced hours later, throught social media, that prosecutor Julián Salto received “orders from above” and withdrew that agreement proposal. When the media wanted to know on Wednesday night if the complaint by Ayuso’s chief of staff was true, the Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office avoided answering. However, the next day he issued a note detailing the entire procedure related to the events. It reported on an email sent in February, in which Alberto González Amador’s lawyer admitted on behalf of his client the commission of the two tax crimes and announced his intention to reach an agreement to compensate for the damage and, thus, benefit from a reduction of the sentence by two degrees.
The Madrid Bar Association, whose dean is Eugenio Ribón, has now converted the case of tax fraud by Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner into a case against the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office for an alleged revelation of secrets. He does not clarify in his note if he will also take measures against the Government of the Community of Madrid, the first protagonist of the leak of an email, the last, between González’s lawyer and prosecutor Salto. This body recalls in its statement that the Statute of the Legal Profession establishes “without palliatives, the duty and right of lawyers to keep secret all communications and proposals related to the exercise of their profession, thus guaranteeing the trust and protection of the rights of his clients.”
However, the note says nothing about the leak of the first known email about this case: the one distributed by Ayuso’s chief of staff on Wednesday night, with the addition of accusing the Prosecutor’s Office of ordering the withdrawal of the settlement offer, which which was proven false thanks to the information provided by the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office a day later.
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The Bar Association continues to explain that “the disclosure of any information related to the legal positions or strategies of the parties, without a formalized compliance agreement, constitutes a violation of these basic principles of secrecy, trust and good faith, and puts at risk the neutrality that must characterize the actions of the prosecutor’s office.” It says nothing about the fact that González Amador’s lawyer provided the Government of Madrid, and it transferred to the media, one of the emails that was crossed with the Prosecutor’s Office.
The dean of the Bar Association, Eugenio Ribón, contacted the provincial prosecutor of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez Fernández, on Thursday to express his protest against the information provided to journalists to clarify whether the regional government’s complaint was true. The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, will meet this Friday with Ribón to discuss this matter.
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