Ayuso’s impunity

The State Attorney’s position was an indictment of the truth.

Miguel Angel Rodriguez and Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s lies, extreme accusations, hoaxes, and those who spread those lies are winning. The fraudulent commission agent wins. The press that verifies the news loses, the Attorney General loses, and the truth loses. Justice also loses. His image in front of citizens deteriorated again due to a sentence that is difficult to explain.

I’m very curious to know the arguments: what path the Supreme Court justices will follow to justify their decision. They will definitely be creative, they will definitely surprise us. It is the same Supreme Court that approved the bizarre investigation conducted by Judge García Castellón, who saw the victim of terrorism in a tourist who died of a heart attack during the protests at El Prat Airport. Those who later invented enrichment without wealth to avoid applying amnesty to Puigdemont. Now they will explain to us what revealing secrets without secrets is. They are always very capable.

It’s the same Supreme Court where coins always fall on the same side: to the right. The resounding success of that strategy promoted by Federico Trillo three decades ago is increasingly appreciated, with the renewal of the CGPJ being blocked every time they lose an election. It is a plan that Ignacio Cossido later summed up accurately: to take control of the Supreme Court “from behind.”

Justice is usually slow. expected. Guarantor. This is exactly what did not happen in the Attorney General’s trial. There is no memory of a faster criminal process or an unpredictable sentence. This was no guarantee either: in order to prosecute a minor crime, which was rarely investigated, they ordered disproportionate measures such as a complete inspection of the prosecutor’s office. Even then they found no evidence. It doesn’t matter.

It is also the final chapter of a larger story: the story of impunity for Isabel Díaz Ayuso and her family. That special protection that allows the President of the Community of Madrid to emerge unscathed from matters that would sink any other politician. There have already been four scandals that he has always managed to save with lies, where others have paid the price and the winds of justice have always been in his favor.

Chapter One: Bovo of Madrid

It happened in 2011. Lorenzo Díaz, the father of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, asked Avalmadrid – a semi-public financial institution dependent on the regional government – for a loan of 400 thousand euros. As collateral, he provided an illegal ship whose value did not even slightly cover the debt. The technicians were warned in writing of the risks, but were approved for credit anyway.

Soon after, Ayuso personally intervened: in July 2011, he sent emails and made calls to the deputy economy minister to avoid the ban. He did not use the ordinary citizen’s window. She was an advisor to Esperanza Aguirre, and after those efforts she became a deputy in the Madrid Assembly.

When it came time to pay the first installment, her father resigned from the company and, 48 hours later, went to a notary to donate his possessions to his children: the apartment in Madrid to Isabel; Sotillo de la Adrada farm of Thomas. The loan was never recovered. The Ayuso family did not return a single euro. We are all paying the price together, with public money.

Several organizations tried to take the case to court. They all failed. In 2021, the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court – the same chamber that has now convicted the public prosecutor – refused to investigate one of the complaints, arguing that Ayuso “did not intervene in the process”, “was not aware of the debts” and did not know “the economic situation of the company”. Wrong, as evidenced by their emails and efforts. Another court also filed another complaint against Tomás Díaz Ayuso in 2022, claiming that the statute of limitations had expired.

Chapter Two: Mask Commission

The story also begins in Sotelo de la Adrada, that town in Ávila where Tomás Díaz Ayuso inherited a farm so that it would not be taken over by Avalmerid. The Ayos spent summers there as children, and during that childhood, they met Daniel Alcazar, a cattle businessman who also specialized in the textile industry.

In April 2020, while 700 people were dying every day in Spain, the city of Madrid awarded a €1.5 million contract to purchase masks from Daniel Alcazar, which had not previously been intended for healthcare work. It was another exclusive that we also revealed at elDiario.es. Shortly after, we discovered that Ayuso’s brother, Thomas, had received a commission of €234,000 from the operation.

Isabel Díaz Ayuso got out of this mess thanks to a massive hoax that the associated press was responsible for amplifying. She accused Pablo Casado of hiring spies to investigate her, which never happened. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez has worked his magic again: instead of talking about Thomas’ kickbacks, the discussion in the conservative media has turned towards Ayuso’s false espionage. Married for only a week, this lie was very effective: it allowed – 23F symbolically – an internal coup in the Popular Party that ended with his immediate dismissal and Alberto Nunez Viejo became the new president of the party.

And in justice? Complaints against the Ayousos family were also unsuccessful. Both the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office investigated the complaints, but ended up archiving them. Arguments? It has not been proven that Isabel Diaz Ayuso interfered in the process and that Tomás Diaz Ayuso was not the owner of the company that paid him the commission.

Chapter Three: The dead in residences

At the same time that Tomás Díaz Ayuso became rich due to the pandemic, the government of the Community of Madrid implemented an inhumane protocol for nursing homes: preventing the transfer of patients with cognitive impairment or significant physical dependence to hospitals. The disease only affected public patients: those with private insurance were referred to hospital.

This protocol has led to deaths of elderly people in nursing homes in Madrid, which is much higher than the average in other communities. Most of them died without medical or palliative care, drowning in their beds. There were 7,291 deaths.

Most attempts to prosecute these deaths have faced enormous obstacles. Especially regarding the role of the High Public Prosecution Office in Madrid, headed by Almudena Lastra. According to their criteria, the protocol “did not act as a barrier” to referrals and these patients received “hospital-like treatment” in residential settings. Both statements are completely wrong.

It is the same Almudena Lastra who testified against the prosecutor and who was never charged with leaking this email, even though she was one of the people who had access to it.

Chapter Four: Two apartments purchased after tax evasion

While Tomás Diaz Ayuso was getting richer, and while 7,291 elderly people died abandoned, there was someone else who also found his own goldmine in the pandemic: Alberto González Amador, Ayuso’s partner. Two million euros in commission for the purchase and sale of masks in light of the health emergency. A fortune from which he later tried to make an additional 350,000 euros on account of the taxes he had to pay.

The exclusive was also informed by elDiario.es. Undeniable news because we published the truth. Just as it was the website elDiario.es that revealed this strange operation with the wife of its boss: half a million euros to a company that did not even issue an invoice for a tenth of it. A buy and sell operation allegedly used to pay a bribe to the head of the Kiron Prevention organisation, justice was served today.

The court is awaiting a report from the UCO. One takes several months to arrive.

Just two weeks ago, Alberto Gonzalez Amador confirmed before the Supreme Court that the bank had “cut off its financing.” His credit problems were short-lived, or he also lied about it. On the day before the prosecutor’s sentence he had learned that the very honest commission agent had bought that fine penthouse which he had always used in reality; Which was in the name of a company managed by one of his lawyers. The bank approved a mortgage of €600,000.

Alberto Gonzalez Amador is still waiting to be in the dock, although today he has another trump card: the conviction of the State Prosecutor, which he will undoubtedly try to use to exonerate himself of his alleged crimes. His partner, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, has already started this work. In an institutional intervention full of lies, the prime minister was accused of being a dictator.

It is a very strange dictatorship. A story in which justice prevails over the family of a supposed dictator while one of his main opponents always escapes any responsibility.

Nothing has consequences for the President of the Community of Madrid or for her entourage, no matter how many scandals accumulate.

All of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s wrongdoings, frauds and lies always end in the same thing: exoneration of herself and accusations, threats or even condemnation of anyone who dares to investigate her.

I want to believe that one day, impunity can end. I hope this endless arrogance, this constant disdain for honesty and truth, will end with consequences. Those who think they are above others, sooner or later, always make a huge mistake.

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