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González’s story is surprising because it assumes that the participating companies had the ability to anticipate the crisis, foreseeing a business opportunity. Also striking is the alleged role of the company IHD Inteconn, whose task is not clear and whose name does not appear in the official business directory of the State of Florida.
González made this statement as part of the investigation once morest him for the alleged fraudulent methods he used to reduce his tax quota in 2020 and 2021, years in which his company Maxwell Cremona had extraordinary income of 2.3 million and 1.3 million respectively. According to the investigation, González used several businessmen who produced false invoices in order for Maxwell to deduct those fictitious expenses.
To explain his income, González told the Treasury that the negotiations began in January 2020. The file details that he promoted the sale through videoconferences and meetings held “between a company, FCS, which has merchandise that is estimated to be in demand in the very short term, and Mape, a consumer company of said merchandise.”
“After multiple previous conversations, finally the person in charge of Maxwell [la pareja de Ayuso] holds a face-to-face meeting with Inteconn in New York on January 23 and 24, 2020, finally closing the agreement on January 25, 2020,” says the Tax Agency.
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“Milongas”
This narrative has surprised the two heads of the Spanish companies. Felipe Recio, joint administrator of FCS, denies to this newspaper that he signed his commission contract with González in January and assures that the contact with Ayuso’s partner occurred “much later.” Recio adds that he is completely unaware of the participation of the American company.
Recio was in China when the pandemic began. This gave it an advantageous position when the need arose to supply masks to Spain. FCS was the company that sold the most masks to administrations in 2020, thanks to four contracts, all of them signed with the Ministry of Health on March 23, according to an investigation by Civio, a public authority monitoring organization. In total, FCS took 217 million euros.
At the same time, FCS sought private clients. He agreed with González to pay a 4.5% commission for all the sales he managed. The commission agent managed to contact the Galician firm Mape Asesores, to which FCS sold medical supplies for 42 million in two operations. For this management, González pocketed 1.9 million euros.
The first of these sales occurred on March 19, according to the president of Mape Asesores, Gumersindo Cachafeiro, who denies that his company participated in any type of management prior to the outbreak of the crisis, in mid-March.
“I started buying the first masks on March 19, 2020. Everything they say regarding what happened before is milongas,” he explains to this newspaper by phone.
Cachafeiro says that his company had been supplying health products to the Spanish market for years. When the pandemic broke out, they made multiple efforts to find a trusted supplier in China. In this way, he adds, they found González, who had already signed his contract with FCS to look for clients. Mape sold material to different companies and administrations, including the Community of Madrid.
“The contact of this man (Alberto González) comes to us through another man in the health sector,” he explains to this newspaper. “On March 17 or 18 I spoke on the phone with FCS, who had staff there in China. They were the ones that gave me the most confidence because there in China no one committed to going to the factories to verify the reliability of the product. These people seemed the most serious to me.”
Cachafeiro says that more than a year ago the Treasury and the Prosecutor’s Office requested all the information regarding these operations. “We gave them everything they asked for and we haven’t had any more news.”
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