In a live interview on Telecinco’s Ana Rosa Quintana show, Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso accused Pedro Sánchez of orchestrating a state-backed campaign of surveillance and intimidation against her inner circle. She cited reports of hidden microphones in a Quirón executive’s office, where her partner, Alberto González Amador, has business ties. The surveillance and theft allegations remain separate from the judicial investigations into González Amador’s business dealings.
Ayuso spoke after Sánchez’s parliamentary address, in which he questioned the business dealings of both her brother and her partner and compared them to high-profile corruption cases. The Madrid leader rejected those comparisons, saying the accusations are part of a broader effort to discredit her administration as the national government faces its own corruption scandals and instability in Congress.
Ayuso said information published by Okdiario indicated that listening devices had been found in Quirón offices and computers belonging to her partner’s legal team had been stolen. She also alleged unauthorized access to González Amador’s personal and tax data, calling the incidents evidence of a coordinated campaign against her and those close to her. Attention has returned to his ties to Quirón after an EL PAÍS report said he received €1.4 million annually from the company between 2021 and 2024, during his relationship with Ayuso.
On 20 October 2026, the Audiencia Provincial de Madrid broadened a separate financial investigation into González Amador. It authorized the Guardia Civil’s Unidad Central Operativa (UCO) to examine bank accounts alongside official tax and Social Security records. The appellate court said investigators needed to compare the information. The inquiry concerns a suspected payment of about €500,000 linked to the purchase of a company owned by Gloria Carrasco, the wife of Fernando Javier Camino, a senior executive at Quirón Prevención. Investigators are examining whether the transaction could have been an improper payment connected to González Amador’s commercial relationship with Quirón. No final finding of guilt has been made.
The company involved was reportedly associated with Círculo de Belleza and later became Masterman & Whitaker Medical Supplie And Health Process Engineering S.L. The UCO’s expanded review will compare banking movements with declared income and official records, including tax filings and Social Security data. González Amador was scheduled to appear before investigating judge Antonio Viejo at Madrid’s Plaza de Castilla courts on 3 December 2026 in this separate inquiry.
Ayuso criticized Sánchez for saying that González Amador profits from private healthcare. She argued that public-private management is common among various administrations, including the current government. She maintains that neither she nor her government faces formal charges. She has also stressed that her relationship with González Amador is neither official nor involves shared assets.
González Amador’s separate tax case has reached the oral-trial stage, though a trial date is pending. Prosecutors and the Abogacía del Estado, representing Spain’s tax authority, are seeking prison sentences of up to three years and nine months over alleged tax fraud of about €350,000 for the 2020 and 2021 tax years. The allegations involve invoices for services prosecutors say were never provided, as well as alleged falsification of commercial documents. The tax case concerns his company Maxwell Cremona and an alleged loss of approximately €350,951. It is separate from the ongoing Quirón-related investigation.
In April 2025, González Amador gave evidence before then-investigating judge Inmaculada Iglesias about income he received from Quirón Prevención. He denied concealing that income through a shell company to avoid taxation. The later appellate decision allows investigators in the separate Quirón inquiry to compare bank records with tax and Social Security data.
Ayuso also addressed past controversies involving her brother, referring to accusations that led to the resignation of former PP leader Pablo Casado. She contrasted her relatives’ activities with those attributed to political opponents and voiced frustration with the continued scrutiny.
With the national government facing mounting challenges and the prospect of early elections in 2027, the conflict between Madrid’s regional leadership and Moncloa shows no sign of abating. The surveillance and data-breach allegations have added a new dimension to divisions in Spanish politics, while the expanded financial inquiry gives investigators a wider basis to examine the disputed Quirón-linked transaction.
Quirón is one of Spain’s largest private healthcare groups, and disputes over public-private partnerships in healthcare have repeatedly surfaced in Spanish politics. The court’s October ruling widened the UCO’s access to financial records but did not determine whether the suspected payment had a legitimate commercial explanation. The surveillance allegations remain separate from the judicial investigations amid an increasingly intense political dispute.
