In this context, I would like to refer to the testimony of accountant Shalom Avni, according to which Uri Motsafi opposed the distribution of dividends over the years, and those that were distributed were mainly the result of pressure exerted by the accountant in light of the tax benefits that could be received on the distribution of dividends.
This is from Avni's testimony:
"In principle DND (B&E, B.S.) They need working capital, it's not a company, first of all, it's not such a big company and they need working capital all the time, and the man I worked with, the manager I worked with... Fouad Motsafi (Uri - B.S.) Roy's brother, has always been strongly opposed to distributing dividends because it harms equity. In 2010, on my own initiative, I pressured them to distribute a dividend because the state had made a campaign that as part of the economic plan they published, which, the 2009 arrangement plan allowed them to distribute a dividend that would only be charged at 12 percent tax instead of 25, and that's a gift from heaven and I pressed, and of course, Fouad Motsafi objected at first because he hears a dividend, it means spending money from the company as far as he's concerned, I explained to him, 'It's not too bad, Just pay the tax, return the money to the company after that,' the 88 percent, and so it was. distributed dividends and most of the money returned to the company" (Prov. p. 1636, s. 8).
Document N/17, which was prepared by the accountant Itzigson, shows that from 2005 to 2012, i.e., for eight years of activity, the defendant received NIS 515,000 as a dividend, but re-injected NIS 305,000 into the company, in addition to additional sums that he injected into the company (see also what is stated in paragraph 125 of the prosecution's summaries, for the relevant references mentioned therein, where the prosecution noted that the defendant also purchased goods for the company in the amount of NIS 120,000). A basic calculation shows that the defendant, a very wealthy man by all accounts, "made profits" from B&E, over the course of eight years of operation, in the amount of NIS 11,250 per year, a particularly small sum for him and one that illustrates the low strength of the economic interest alleged by the prosecution.