And now, in the intrusion that was carried out on the defendant's A32 device, on which the 685 operational subscriber was sitting, a screenshot was found in the photo folder on August 7, 2022, at 10:30 a.m., documenting an examination that was carried out using a dedicated application that provides vehicle data according to license plate number. The documented examination relates to license plate 14-725-34, the same plate that was later duplicated and installed on the Mitsubishi on the day of the murder. The data on the document indicate that the original vehicle that legally and legitimately bears this license plate is a white Mitsubishi Outlander, data that corresponds to the stolen and replicated Mitsubishi that followed the deceased and escaped the murderers [P/99 in section 10, P/100 - screenshot].
While in the police interrogation the defendant, as usual, denied any connection to the aforementioned screenshot [P/164 at p. 84], in his testimony in court he tried, already during the main interrogation, to provide an innocent explanation for the existence of the document on his phone. According to him, he was asked by Ahmad and Muhammad to locate details about a Mitsubishi Outlander for them, and he checked the app and took out a model, number and color, and in fact all the details except the owner's name. According to him, only in retrospect, after reviewing the investigation materials in the file, did he realize that they were dealing with the transfer of stolen vehicles from the Occupied Territories to Israel, and that the data he extracted through his phone was intended to help them bring in a stolen vehicle, which was later used to carry out the murder, although he does not know whether this was the purpose of bringing the vehicle into Israel.
Later in his testimony, the defendant had difficulty explaining his exact pattern of activity, when he initially claimed that the test was carried out by entering the requested vehicle model and color, but later changed his version and claimed that he entered the Yad 2 website, where he searched according to the requested model, and the first license number he came up with was that of that vehicle. He then entered the same number into the designated app, and thus all the details of the vehicle were received. When asked why Muhammad and Ahmad needed his help in locating the data, he replied that they did not know how to write and therefore did not do so themselves [transcript of September 11, 2024, at pp. 453-463, and again in the cross-examination, at pp. 574-573]. When he was questioned again two weeks later on this issue, he reiterated that he had taken the license plate number he had checked from the Yad 2 website, and this was his version even after he was accused that at that time there was no advertisement for the sale of the aforementioned vehicle on the Yad 2 website [transcript of September 25, 2024, at pp. 667-668]. Indeed, in the summons testimonies, it was clarified that the vehicle was last sold about six months earlier, in February 2022, and that the advertisement for Yad 2 was removed by the seller shortly after the sale [testimony of the seller, Yuval Bibi - Transcript of February 19, 2025, at pp. 299-302].