The lawsuit is based, inter alia, on the testimony of the accountant Pini Besson, as far as Sevilla and JCC and ICT companies are concerned.
Defendant 1 claims in his summaries that this is a witness involved who was interrogated under a warning and that his testimony was given under the grave fear that he would lose his license and that criminal proceedings would even be taken against him. Against this background, Defendant 1 claims that "confused speculations have become decisive statements due to the desire to please the investigators and the prosecution, with the aim of evading such proceedings."
Although in his testimony in court, Pini Basson identified Defendant 1 as "Chaim", he had difficulty describing him and even confirmed that he suffered from vision problems. The defendant vehemently denied that he ever introduced himself to Pini Besson as "Haim" or as a manager of the companies JCC, ICT or Seville. Contrary to what is alleged in the indictment, defendant 1 did not give Pini Besson the records of the ICT company and did not even instruct him to issue invoices of Svilla against them.
As to the fact that the telephone and fax numbers in the office of Defendant 1 appeared in the documents of the Sevilla Company, the explanation for this is that Kobi Zoaretz and Haim Ben Nissan used the office of Defendant 1 and called, both from his landline phone and from his mobile phone, and against this background it is possible to understand the confusion of the bookkeeper in Son.
The fact that the defendant did not mention Kobi Zoaretz in his interrogations at the Customs investigation offices stems from the fact that while waiting in the interrogation room, a certain interrogee approached him and told him in a threatening manner to "forget the name Kobi" and "forget all the relationships that Uri had with a person named Kobi," and that it would only be for his benefit.
Since the concern arose that these were real threats, Defendant 1 refrained from mentioning the name of Kobi Zoaretz. The prosecution is trying to base its argument regarding Defendant 1's connection to the Seville companies, JCC and ICT, on the recording made by Defendant 3, Araldo Frisi, in his conversation with Yehoshua Shlosh.