In addition to the two alleged money transfer incidents, the indictment states that Ben-Eliezer made an additional demand for bribes to the defendant on January 22, 2012, when he asked for an additional sum ranging from NIS 1,200,000 to NIS 1,300,000. It was alleged that Ben-Eliezer exerted pressure on the defendant in order for him to transfer the money to him, whether from his own sources or from other sources, and as a result of these pressures, the defendant approached a mutual acquaintance and his partner in some of the businesses named Yehuda Tzadik, and asked for the said sum for Ben-Eliezer. Yehuda Tzadik refused to transfer money directly to Ben-Eliezer, but only to the defendant, and gave the defendant a check for an amount ranging from NIS 1,200,000 to NIS 1,300,000 at the defendant's order. It was claimed that the defendant kept the check for several days, but in the end they returned it to Yehuda Tzadik and did not transfer it to Ben-Eliezer, despite Ben-Eliezer's repeated requests.
Economic Interests
- The indictment does not detail economic interests that existed between Ben-Eliezer and the defendant shortly after the date of the alleged transfer of the funds, and apart from a general statement that the funds were transferred in order for Ben-Eliezer to be biased towards the defendant, the indictment details only one event, which is the consideration for the bribe, which took place several years before the money transfers.
It was alleged that the defendant held 25% of the shares of "B&E International Ltd.", which is an Israeli company engaged in the field of textile chemicals (hereinafter – B&E), and his partners in the company were Uri (Fouad) Motsafi (brother of the defendant, hereinafter – Ori Motsafi) and Yaoz Eskin, who also served as the company's CEO (hereinafter – Iskin) each of which held about 37.5% of the shares of B&E.
B&E's source of income was the sale of goods to Egypt, and for this purpose, the company required entry visas to Egypt for its employees, but at a certain time the Egyptian authorities began to reject the company's applications for visas.