Jainaga has asked the Spanish National High Court to annul the registration of Sidenor on 10 February

Sidenor's president , José Antonio Jainaga, has filed an appeal with the Spanish National High Court requesting the cancellation of the registration of the company's facilities in Basauri on 10 February .

On 10 February, the Spanish National Police went to Sidenor's headquarters in Basauri to gather information on the investigation into the sale of steel to Israel .

In October, the judge of the Francisco de Jorge National High Court decided to investigate Jainaga for alleged offencesof complicity in a crime of ontrabando and against humanity by selling steel items to the Israeli Military Industries (IMSI) without authorization.

In a letter submitted by the Public Prosecutor's Office on the search, he stated that the case against the President of Sidenor and two other directors of the Basque company should proceed only to determine whether smuggling offences have been committed.

It further objected to the practiceof this procedure on the grounds that it was "inappropriate and disproportionate to the weighting of the fundamental right to inviolability of the home" provided for in article 18.2 of the Constitution.

On 12 November, Jainaga and two other directors of the company declared themselves under investigation before Central Examining Court No. 1 of the National High Court. Jainaga stated in his statement that Sidenor had not committed "any irregularities in the sale of steel to Israel", since steel produced by Sidenor and exported to Israel was not "among the products requiring special administrative control".