Adv. PoratBecause Fouad in my eyes is a head. (Z"l Ish - B.S.) I thought that there might be some kind of system between Mr. Nanikashvili and Fouad, and this is something that will certainly emerge in the framework of his cross-examination. I wanted to know if we have anything to fear, there is a question..." (Prov. p. 1655, s. 28).
Adv. Porat's concern turned out to be an unfounded concern, since in the course of his investigation, it became clear that the money had been transferred to Ben-Eliezer.
And this is from the testimony of Attorney Porat:
"Before Fouad's testimony, I contacted Michal Solmonovich who worked with me, was a partner with me in the firm and asked her if there was any concern, whether there was any concern that money had been transferred between Nanikashvili and Fouad, she inquired about it with Nanikashvili and came back to me and told me that money had indeed been transferred but that these funds were arranged within the framework of an orderly loan agreement for those who should be reported, for example to the Knesset" (Prov. 1665, para. 14).
Adv. Slomonovich described that at the stage of submitting the affidavits, she was not told anything about the loan, and that this issue only came up at the preparatory meeting held on January 17, 2014 (N/25), only three days before Ben-Eliezer's testimony in court.
Her testimony is as follows:
"I can say with absolute certainty that in the first stage, when we submitted all the affidavits of the main witness to the court, both of Avraham and Fuad and of everyone, we didn't know about it. If I had known about it in real time at the time of the submission of the original affidavits of the main witness, it would have been included in the affidavit, both in the affidavit of Fouad and in the affidavit of Amram (Z.L. Avraham – B.S.) because why is it necessary, it is different from my point of view it would have been a mistake if I had done it differently. We didn't know for sure about it at this point. We certainly knew about it in the preparatory meeting for Fouad's testimony because that's where I remember for sure that the issue came up..." (Prov. 1697, s. 22).