The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard has been working since last November on the preparation of a report on the alleged cover-up of the illicit distribution of a commission between Alberto González Amador and Fernando Camino, the latter president of Quirón Prevention and who would have favored from another company the hit of almost 2 million euros that triggered the business career of Ayuso’s partner at the beginning of the pandemic.
These facts focus the accusation of business corruption and unfair administration that Alberto González Amador faces in the same court that has already sent him to the bench for tax fraud and falsification of documents. The UCO report will be key to the accusation against Ayuso’s partner, which may lead to a second prosecution and trial for the aforementioned crimes. In the order issued by the previous judge in the case to the UCO to investigate, the possibility of other new crimes emerging such as money laundering and membership in a criminal group was already mentioned.
The previous judge in the case and the current instructor, the Prosecutor’s Office and the popular prosecution, carried out by the PSOE and Más Madrid, consider it to be proven in an indicative manner that Alberto González Amador paid half a million euros for a company owned by Fernando Camino’s wife that barely had a turnover of 30,000 a year and that this exorbitant price was the way to cover up the distribution of the commission for the masks and the rest of the protective material.
In addition to the position at Quirón, Camino held a seat on the board of directors of a Galician company called Mape, which purchased medical supplies worth 42 million euros from another Catalan company, called FCS, in May 2020. González Amador had agreed with FCS that it would obtain 4.5% of the sales it achieved. Thus, Fernando Camino would have influenced the purchase of the material by the Galician company to take a part of the commission agreed secretly and previously with González Amador.
Ayuso’s partner has been working since 2017 for Quirón Prevention, chaired by Camino. The year that his relationship with the Madrid president transcended, 2021, Alberto González Amador’s main company multiplied by four the turnover of the Quirón Group, which in turn obtains close to 1,000 million euros from the Community of Madrid each year thanks to the policy of privatization of medical services carried out by the Ayuso Government.
In June 2024, the Prosecutor’s Office and González Amador’s defense finalized an agreement for the businessman and commission agent to plead guilty to two tax frauds and the sentencing request to be reduced to eight months, which would avoid going to prison, in addition to paying a fine. Just in time, the popular prosecution presented a report to the court in which it requested that the crimes indirectly attributed to Ayuso’s partner be expanded. The lawyers had discovered in the bowels of the tax inspection a strange purchase operation of a company by González Amador and began to pull the thread. The possibility of an agreement was frustrated.
Judge Inmaculada Iglesias initially refused to expand the accusation, but when faced with the appeal of the parties, she backed down and decided to investigate Alberto González Amador for business corruption and unfair administration. At the request of the Public Ministry, Judge Iglesias requested the involvement of the UCO in the case last June. “Given the complexity of the investigation of the facts and the interprovincial nature of the supposedly criminal plot,” Judge Iglesias turned to the specialized unit of the Civil Guard.
Inmaculada Iglesias retired shortly after and veteran judge Antonio Viejo took charge of Investigative Court number 19. The delay in the incorporation of Viejo to his new position caused the documentation of the case, necessary for the UCO to begin investigating, not arriving at the headquarters of the specialized unit until last November.
The UCO has in its possession the tax inspection carried out by the Tax Agency on González Amador for 19 months and the rest of the documentation incorporated into the separate piece for corruption in business and unfair administration. Within the framework of that piece, Alberto González Amador and Gloria Carrasco, the León pharmacist who sold her company Círculo de Belleza SL to Ayuso’s partner, were declared under investigation in April of last year for 499,836 euros.
Círculo de Belleza had no employees and its capital consisted of three depreciated hair removal devices and a laptop computer. Before the judge, Ayuso’s partner justified the half million disbursed in that the acquisition was going to “allow him to develop a consulting project for numerous pharmacies and expand throughout Latin America.” What he really did was change the name to Círculo de Belleza, which became Masterman & Whitaker, and award it work that was actually done by Maxwell Cremona, González Amador’s parent company. The objective was, according to the investigation, to obtain tax benefits fraudulently.
Prosecutor Diego Lucas speaks of “bribery” by González Amador to Fernando Camino so that Mape bought the masks and he pocketed 1,973,000 euros in a single operation. Later, González Amador did not want to pay what he owed on this income and organized a scheme of false invoices to deceive the Treasury.
A family operation
The information obtained by the Tax Agency will allow the UCO to join the dotted line of the commission’s cover-up. Círculo de Belleza was only 100% owned by Gloria Carrasco shortly before selling it to González Amador. Barely a month after Ayuso’s partner collected the second installment of the 2 million commission, the director of Quirón Prevention sold 20% of the company to his wife. Carrasco’s brother did the same, who also sold his 20% to Gloria.
According to what the León pharmacist told the judge in the case, she bought that 40% from her husband and her brother for 8,000 euros (4,000 each). The operation between family members took place in September 2020. Just three months later, the woman sold the company to Alberto González Amador for 500,000 euros. According to the sale price, the 20% that Camino would have sold to his wife for 4,000 euros would have become 100,000 euros thanks to the generosity of González Amador.
The statements between González Amador and Gloria Carrasco in court presented contradictions, as noted by the prosecutor in a writing. The supposed consultancy in Latin America that justified the price of Círculo de Belleza “was not done.” Carrasco, for his part, defended that the value of his company resided “in the knowledge of how to expand the business of pharmacy owners through the procedure of referring their clients to stores where they could enjoy hair removal and body remodeling treatments, consulting that had not been developed for years,” wrote prosecutor Diego Lucas.
The meeting point between the statements of both is Wilson Rodríguez, a businessman from Florida who stands as the fourth protagonist of the commission’s plot. González Amador assures that to put the two Spanish companies in contact in the purchase and sale of masks, he had to turn to Inteccon, Wilson Rodríguez’s company in Florida and that this work was part of what justified his large commission.
Wilson Rodríguez, as Gloria Carrasco acknowledged in court, is a friend of hers and her husband. So González Amador turned to a friend of the couple so that the company in which one of them, Fernando Camino, participated, bought the material from FCS for which Ayuso’s partner would pocket the 2 million euros.
Before leaving the court, Judge Iglesias presented a second thesis on the purchase and sale operation of Círculo de Belleza. The judge raised the possibility that the half million euros disbursed by González Amador concealed the compensation to Camino for having increased the billing to Quirón Prevention. The popular prosecution requested the declaration of Fernando Camino as a defendant, but Judge Viejo is waiting for the UCO report to agree on new proceedings.
Source: www.eldiario.es
