Calls for a wider judicial investigation have intensified in Madrid after PSOE and Más Madrid, acting as popular prosecutors, backed the Fiscalía’s appeal for broader financial inquiries into possible offenses linked to Quirón Prevención and its director general, Fernando Javier Camino. The inquiry also covers Camino’s wife, Gloria Carrasco. The Audiencia Provincial de Madrid ordered the investigating judge to expand the records available to the Guardia Civil’s Unidad Central Operativa (UCO), including records held by tax and Social Security authorities, along with banking information concerning Camino, Carrasco and Alberto González Amador, partner of Madrid regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The court acted after the judge had limited the requested inquiries.
The case centers on invoices issued by González Amador’s companies Maxwell Cremona and Masterman & Whitaker to Quirón Prevención between 2021 and 2023. Tax-inspection findings put the total, including VAT, at €4,436,495. The taxable base was €3,666,525, while VAT accounted for €769,970. That detailed figure underlies the roughly €4.4 million reported in the case. Separately, court proceedings have cited approximately €6 million in Quirón-related revenues received by González Amador’s companies from 2020 to 2023. This broader total includes pandemic-era medical-supply contracts, along with later consultancy and audit work.
Judicial scrutiny is particularly focused on Masterman. In December 2020, González Amador acquired the company from Carrasco for nearly €500,000. Previously named Círculo de Belleza, it allegedly had little prior activity and no staff or operational resources. Investigators are examining whether the purchase was a legitimate acquisition or concealed remuneration connected to an earlier business benefit involving Quirón Prevención. That inquiry includes González Amador’s participation in pandemic-era medical-supply contracts. After the acquisition, he renamed the company Masterman and used it to invoice Quirón Prevención for quality-audit services. Investigators are also examining whether those services were genuine and how the transactions were treated for tax purposes. The allegations remain under judicial investigation.
The expanded checks are intended to test the suspected links against financial and administrative records. In its appeal, the Fiscalía asked the court to issue the UCO’s requests to Spain’s State Tax Administration Agency (AEAT) and the General Treasury of Social Security (TGSS). The UCO’s financial review covers González Amador, Camino and Carrasco. It aims to clarify the origin and purpose of the payments, including whether the company acquisition was connected to the earlier contracts.
Separately, Anticorruption prosecutors asked Madrid Investigating Court No. 19 to suspend certain tax inspections involving Quirón Prevención and other companies in the group. The inspections cover corporate income tax and VAT for periods overlapping the criminal inquiry, including the 2021-2023 invoices. Prosecutors argued that judicial findings could affect the administrative assessments and sought to coordinate the two proceedings. They also warned that inspection deadlines could expire before the criminal investigation clarifies the transactions. Quirónsalud, Spain’s largest private hospital group, holds impressive contracts with the Madrid regional government. The article has reported around €1 billion annually for hospital cooperation.
The case has drawn attention to the intersection of business and politics in Madrid, particularly around public contracts. It comes amid broader scrutiny of public officials and their associates, including other recent high-profile investigations. Ongoing probes into the Guardia Civil and SEPI have also tested standards of accountability in Spain’s public sector, as highlighted in this recent report on judicial pressure involving public officials. Developments in the Ayuso partner case have intensified calls for transparency and oversight in public-private relationships, particularly where large sums and political connections are involved.
Spain’s legal structure allows for popular prosecution, enabling political parties and civic groups to participate directly in judicial cases of public interest. PSOE and Más Madrid backed the Fiscalía’s effort to obtain records held by tax and Social Security authorities, along with banking information. The case remains in the investigative phase. The court’s authorization of broader inquiries is not a final determination that bribery occurred. Nor has the court found fraud or tax offenses. The evidence gathered may clarify the financial flows and business relationships under examination.
