These claims of the defendant and his excuse that he came in order to borrow a sum of money and complain about the problem of the railing are weak in our eyes and we reject them outright. Logic dictates that coming to Rafi Abdayev's business was only meant to get rid of the Chevrolet car and the bag while using the help of the innocent Rafi Abdeyev.
It appears that the defendant's arrival at Shlomo Peretz, who used to spend the night at that time in a kind of warehouse (!) on the stadium street in Kiryat Haim (according to his testimony, p. 2879, para. 21), was also done for the purpose of distancing himself from the car, while Shlomo Peretz heard the defendant talking about the need to take some vehicle from the Krayot.
The defendant himself in his testimony before us failed to explain, even partially, his conduct described above, the use he made of others (including the taxi) while the Chevrolet was standing in Rafi Abdeev's business compound like an irreversible stone, and while he was interested, according to him, to transfer the Chevrolet car to Eliran Sabag's car lot, but in an impenetrative manner he refrained from doing so himself.
It should be recalled that even after he took the Chevrolet car from Rafi Abdiyev's business complex, the defendant did not see fit to return it to Eliran Sabag's car lot. In other words, there is no evidentiary basis for his version that the Chevrolet was in bad working order, and therefore it had to be returned to Eliran Sabag. The desire to return him to the parking lot is therefore rooted in a different purpose.
The Defendant's Actions from the Time of the Murder to His Arrest
At this stage, it is worth mentioning the defendant's claim, a claim that was first heard in his testimony in court, more than three years after the day of the incident. According to this claim, during the night between 24 March 2021 and 25 March 2021, and between 25 March 2021 and 26 March 2021, the defendant was in Kiryat Yam, on Sapir Street, in the company of a man named Emil Rafalov.