Overview
- Police say an email chain and a sales table found in commercial director Íñigo Molero’s office reference steel for “howitzers,” naming IMI Systems and other defense clients with entries through March 5, 2025.
- An Audiencia Nacional court is investigating alleged contraband and potential complicity in genocide or crimes against humanity linked to Sidenor’s exports to Israeli armament firms.
- Molero and company president José Antonio Jainaga are formal suspects in the case, according to legal sources cited in the reports.
- The preliminary police report on the February 10 search has been sent to Judge Francisco de Jorge, outlining evidence of end‑use knowledge in the seized documents.
- The popular accuser says the seized list shows shipments to more than 20 military companies in nine countries and argues that undeclared sales could add contraband counts, while the Fiscalía seeks to annul the raid and opposes a Palestinian asylum‑seeker’s bid to join the case ahead of a March 2 hearing.