The next day, Rafi Abdayev was forced to drive the defendant from another street (Sapir Street in Kiryat Yam) and bring him to his business compound, and then the defendant "said hello and took the car and drove off" (p. 2468, para. 19). At the time of picking up the car, the defendant was already without the bag.
Rafi Abdeev's actions are seen as those of someone who serves his master, he is portrayed as being subject to the authority of the accused, driving him to the places he wishes to go, waiting for him in those places, later returning and picking him up (after receiving instructions via a phone other than the defendant's), handing him a sum of money in the amount of ILS 10,000 (!), all during his workday.
The defendant's conversations with Rafi Abdayev were recorded, as were conversations that the defendant made with others from Rafi Abdayev's phone (P/265, P/265A). In his testimony, Rafi Abdayev also referred to a camera video from a gas station, a video taken on March 23, 2021, in which the defendant was seen (p. 2489). Rafi Abdiyev drove the defendant to the area of the stadium in Kiryat Haim, where the defendant met Shlomo Peretz on 24 March 2021 at 12:31 (10 July 2023, testimony of Shlomo Peretz, p. 2882). This is also how he came to him the next day, and according to Shlomo Peretz in the interrogation (p. 2886, s. 21, p. 2887, paras. 3-4), the defendant was looking for someone who would take a car from the Krayot, and whom he would personally pick up from Kiryat Yam.
We are of the opinion that the defendant's incessant attempt to disconnect from the Chevrolet vehicle, his desire to avoid being seen in and near it, the disengagement from the file that the defendant took the trouble to transfer from one vehicle to another, as well as his pointless stay in the company of Shlomo Peretz, all constitute strange behavior, which, in the absence of a satisfactory explanation, should be treated as incriminating. After all, if it had been an "innocent" case with sanctity accessories (as the defendant said), then there would have been room to ask where the bag that was in his possession had disappeared? In addition, and more importantly, there was no objective impediment for the defendant to return the car to Eliran Sabag's car lot and seek to repair it, to the extent that it was really requested. Moreover, the defendant arrived unexpectedly driving the Chevrolet to Rafi Abdeyev's business without coordination and without an invitation. The defendant used the need for ILS 10,000, and the incident that took place between Rafi Abdeev and his daughter (due to a railing that endangered her son, the defendant's grandson), as an excuse for his coming to the compound on the day of the incident, after the murder was committed.