The first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, did not appear this morning at the conciliation ceremony that Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, had urged, legal sources have informed Europa Press.
The conciliation act was scheduled for this Wednesday following a claim by González Amador for 40,000 euros for the statements that the Minister of Finance made on March 12 in the Government control session in the Senate, in which she asked for explanations from the Madrid president for living “in an apartment that was paid for with fraud to the Public Treasury” and that “was paid for with commissions regarding masks in the worst pandemic situation.”
González Amador’s attorney attended the Court of First Instance number 49 of Madrid this morning, while no one from the defendant, neither Montero nor the representative of the State Attorney’s Office who represents the minister, has attended.
In this way, the conciliation is without effect and a phase now opens in which the plaintiff must analyze whether to resort to criminal or civil proceedings in the Supreme Court since Montero has a capacity of jurisdiction due to her status as minister and deputy.
Montero also indicated that he found it “striking” that Ayuso “has a brother and now a boyfriend who seem to be related to alleged causes of fraud, be it masks or commissions or any other issue.” He also said that “he has to make her look at it” and asked her to give explanations “normally” since she is usually “so quick” when it comes to answering. “Why don’t you answer this question?” he insisted.
The first vice president of the Government thus reacted to information that ‘elDiario.es’ published then that indicated that the Prosecutor’s Office filed a complaint against Ayuso’s partner for alleged tax fraud exceeding 350,000 euros, in addition to the fact that the regional president resided in a apartment of one million euros that was paid for after the Treasury was investigating her boyfriend.
However, the information did not indicate that the apartment had been paid for with the 350,000 euros allegedly defrauded, so González Amador filed a lawsuit for interference with the right to honor and privacy, as confirmed by those same sources.
However, the conciliation act is the previous step before the formal filing of a lawsuit by Ayuso’s partner, so it is possible that both parties reach an agreement to end the litigation.
González Amador’s legal team already announced in March that it was preparing a complaint against the first vice president and Minister of Finance for revealing secrets, after some of her tax data became publicly known. That same week, Ayuso denounced that her partner is “a private citizen who is being besieged by all the power of a State” with the aim of seeking his “personal destruction.”
