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The connection with FCS was key to the sudden good progress of Maxwell’s business, the company owned by Díaz Ayuso’s partner. Between 2019 and 2020, the company increased sales six-fold while the world fought the coronavirus. Thus, Maxwell Cremona went from earning 357,773 euros in 2019 to making sales of 2.3 million in 2020, and 1.3 million in 2021. “He sold medical supplies,” says a source familiar with how the market worked during the pandemic regarding González. health, in which the intermediary began working in January to obtain masks or gloves before the global pandemic was declared.
In 2020, the lion’s share of its business was contributed by FCS Select Products SL, which in turn received more than €263 million from the central government to provide 508 million respiratory protection masks, 10 million pairs of nitrile gloves and 150,000 glasses. Contacted by this newspaper, the company declined to comment. Nor did it do so when the PP denounced the contracts signed with the Ministry of Health during Salvador Illa’s time as minister, considering that they had been given by hand, without publicity, despite the fact that it had no employees, and although one of the supportive administrators of the company, Mayra DC, had pleaded guilty to aggravated fraud in February 2016 following reaching an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office, as published The confidential.
In 2021, the main client of the Díaz Ayuso couple’s company, according to the complaint from the Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, was the Quirón Salud group. This healthcare transatlantic manages four hospitals in the Madrid public network, provided all types of services during the pandemic, and in just six months of 2022 it received more than 1,200 million from the Díaz Ayuso Government to settle outstanding debts for almost a decade. .
“Alberto González has been working in consulting and occupational prevention services for more than 25 years with different mutual insurance companies and clients,” says a spokesperson for Quirón, who declines to specify for what services the consultant billed the conglomerate. “González Amador joined FRATER Prevention as an external consultant in 2003, and QuironPrevención assumed and continued this and other services when it acquired this mutual company in 2015; and until today,” he adds, emphasizing that González did not work during the period investigated for Quirón Salud, despite the fact that the complaint states this. And he emphasizes: “All invoices accepted and paid are always supported by services provided and contracts in force.”
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Quirón Prevention had intense activity during the worst of the pandemic. It offered everything from infection tracker services to the Community of Madrid to medical examinations to the Ministry of Defense, including the creation of seals that guaranteed the absence of covid in companies and schools, the management of PCRs, the provision of toilets to carry out coronavirus tests. antigens in hotels enabled by the Community of Madrid, or external services for the prevention of occupational risks related to the virus in multiple private companies and public companies that adapted their facilities following their protocols.
Thus, the company had to rely on medical supplies (masks) and tests to detect the virus, as it developed health management protocols for those attending events such as The Ocean Road regatta, maintaining its commercial activity in 25 countries and its offices in countries like Peru, Ecuador, Colombia or Mexico.
Despite the controversy, the Community of Madrid limited itself this Tuesday to declaring itself unrelated to a matter that does not involve a public office, despite the fact that the regional president was González’s partner at the time the alleged irregularities were committed. reported. The commission agent is accused of two crimes of tax fraud and a third for document falsification.
“Now it was the boyfriend’s turn, it is part of what I have been suffering for five years,” Díaz Ayuso herself said this Tuesday, in reference to the controversies regarding the Avalmadrid case (a guarantee of 400,000 euros never fully returned by a company owned by his father) and the Tomás Díaz Ayuso case (the commission of 234,000 euros charged by the president’s brother for bringing masks to cover a company’s contract with Madrid). And he added: “(…) This has nothing to do with the Community of Madrid.”
In this case, the Prosecutor’s complaint focuses on describing the alleged false invoices to deduct expenses and does not specify what the sales of Maxwell consisted of, a company without employees created by González in Madrid in 2016 and whose corporate purpose is energy consulting. . According to the complaint, part of the sales were also made by another González company without employees, Masterman & Whitaker Medical Supplies and Health Process Engineering SL. This company was established in 2008 for the distribution of cosmetic products, but changed its corporate purpose to dedicate itself to the supply of healthcare and parapharmacy products.
“It has been detected that said company [Maxwell]in order to avoid taxation, given the increase in business volume that it had experienced in those years, carried out certain behaviors, with the sole purpose of reducing said taxation, improperly deducting expenses by virtue of invoices that do not correspond to services actually provided,” the complaint reads.
The companies that allegedly assisted Maxwell to lower the tax rate are dedicated to various activities and none appear to have connections with the health sector. There are five based in Seville—Púrpura Star (photovoltaic products), Baluarte Desarrollo Centro Especial de Empleo (activities auxiliary to pension funds), Desarrollo Social de CEE el Manantial (education, cleaning and gardening), Bianconera de Servicios Profesionales (activities real estate) Bianconera Spa SL (newspaper printing and other manufacturing activities)—a company based in Costa Rica, Gayani Ltd, and another in Mexico, MKE Manufacturing SA de CV. In total, these companies would have presented 15 false invoices for fictitious expenses totaling 1.7 million euros, according to the investigation.
González had previously been described in press reports as a health technician, without further details. Before the pandemic, he appears in the Commercial Registry as a microbusiness administrator. In addition to the aforementioned, in 2009 he established Massias & Kuhne, dedicated to business consulting and closed in 2016. He is also listed as representative since 2015 of the mutual Fraternidad Muprespa, a large company with more than 1,000 employees and 85 centers dedicated to prevention. of occupational risks, which ended up integrated into the Quirón group, which would later constitute the Quirón Prevention brand.
After the events investigated, in April 2022, González set up a new company, dedicated to tourist accommodation and called October Twelve Accomodation SL.
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