The former Deputy General of Bizkaia and current President of the Basque Court of Public Accounts, José Luis Bilbao, answered at least 26 times before the judge "I do not remember" or "I do not know". Debates of the European Parliament The Provincial Council of Bizkaia took the decision to stifle the modular housing factory project. Bilbao has appeared as a witness and under oath, with the obligation to tell the truth in the trial against the Diputación; the modular housing company Habidite, the complainant, has requested EUR 30.8 million for not having fulfilled its commitments.

"I am gaining ground," said José Luis Bilbao, after giving some thirty odd answers on the role he played in the project to promote a modular housing factory in Alonsotegi, to somehow justify the lack of memory. This project received three agreements from the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and a grant of EUR 6 million from the Government of Ibarretxe. Bilbao and Afer President Jabyer Fernández presented it in December 2006.

The bad memory of Bilbao has been corrected by the Economic Promotion Deputy, Izaskun Arteche, but the testimony of former MEP, Jabyer Fernández, has been called into question. The three have shared a small room adjacent to the large courtroom of the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country, which has allowed two well-known enemies to reunite. Bilbao and Fernández not only shared the Habidite project: The case of Iurbenor also met.

Indeed, Fernández has testified before the judge after three years, seven months and fifteen days in prison on charges of a tax evasion offence of EUR 43 million in the so-called "Iurbenor case". On this occasion, before the administrative court, he made it clear that Habidite complied with the commitments contained in the agreements.

"I'm going to tell the truth," Fernández insisted before the judge, who recognized that his current "partner" is Habidet's administrator and has ensured that his relationship with José Luis Bilbao changed when he sent him a letter with the February 2009 check-in. "He got very angry and put me on a date," he said. "Bilbao began to chase me to erase any trace of Habidite," he said. The mayor of Bilbao said that he "did not remember" that José Luis Bilbao received Fernández's letter minutes before the meeting. "In my old life, I forgive, in my old position the movement of papers was tremendous," Bilbao said at a press conference. I had also forgotten the meeting with Fernández.