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Updated Monday, March 18, 2024-12:37

The alleged tax fraud of Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner, businessman Alberto González Amador, is still going strong a week after coming to light.

This Monday the regional president, who last Wednesday had denied such fraud and attributed the case to "a savage inspection" by the Treasury, has distanced herself from it and focused her speech solely on criticizing Moncloa and the Prosecutor's Office for their "methods." chavistas".

"I respond for the Community of Madrid, which has nothing to do with this and I believe that the defense strategies of an individual are no longer part of my responsibility," the popular leader began during her visit to the Finanzauto company, in Arganda. del Rey, where he has described as "absolute scandal" that the tax inspection of his partner "is going around all the media."

The regional president has called it "very serious" and "Chavista" that Moncloa uses "all the powers of the State against an individual", which she has defined as "the squid ink strategy."

"Why do these summaries have to be in the media? How did they get there? Many lines have been crossed and all this will have to be explained," said Ayuso, who framed it in "a very serious data leak scandal." personal" for whom he has held the central government and the Prosecutor's Office responsible.

The businessman Alberto González Amador made public at the end of last week that he will file a complaint against the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, for revealing his personal data and against the Prosecutor's Office for the same reason by ordering the distribution of a note in which said data.

Fact that has been disapproved by the General Council of Spanish Lawyers and by the Madrid Bar Association.

The second point to which the regional president has referred is the one she points out to her chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, whom the left-wing parties have requested in the Madrid Assembly to appear at the parliamentary headquarters for "threatening" a media.

Last Saturday

elDiario.es

reported a conversation between Rodríguez and a journalist with the message: "We are going to crush you."

"What has been seen is that they are two people with a relationship of trust of more than 30 years who argue on WhatsApp. Let's see if now we can't get angry with trusted people because everything is already leaked," the popular

leader remarked.

,

de facto

ruling out

the resignation that is being asked of him by the opposition parties.