It was claimed that this was a false sales account, as the goods were supposed to be purchased from another company for $120,580.
The bill of lading, bearing the forged bank stamp, the false bill of sale and the packing list of the goods, was handed over by defendant 2, Yehoshua Shlosh, to the broker of the sale, Noah Niv, and they asked to draw up an import registration for and on behalf of JCC, according to which the value of the goods was $29,740, while the value of the goods was, as stated, $120,580, an amount that was not paid at all to the supplier.
In this way, the defendants received the goods through a transportation company, and used the documents to defraud customs and reduce import tax charges. The indictment alleges that the evasion of the payment of import taxes amounts to NIS 63,524. The indictment also stated that defendant 4 received the goods, knowing that they had been obtained through the crime.
The prosecution's arguments regarding the fourth and fifth charges
- The prosecution claims that it was defendant 3, Araldo Frizzi, who ordered the goods that are the subject of these charges, as well as the goods that are the subject of charges 6 and 7.
Frizzi claimed, regarding these charges, that he was not in contact with Arab invitees, but only with Defendant 1, Uri Resch.
The orders, which are the subject of these charges, were executed by defendant 3 by means of faxes sent to the suppliers, when the customer was defendant 4, Avi Kalamaro.
The testimony of defendant 3 fits in well with the fact that he was told by defendant 1, with respect to the goods in the seventh charge, that the person who was supposed to provide him with the data of ordering the computers was Avi Kalamaro.
The prosecution argues that once the part of defendant 4 in the summons that are the subject of indictment 7 was proven, "the conclusion is necessary that he was involved in a similar way in the summons that are the subject of indictments 4-6."
Part of the fraudulent method was to persuade the supplier to talk to an impostorous banker, in order to make him believe that there was a banker on the importer's side, waiting to receive the documents for collection. As far as charges 4 and 5 are concerned, a forged letter from Mizrahi Bank (P/292) was sent to the supplier, and the bank's telephone and fax numbers were allegedly invented, when in fact Ephraim Meir, an acquaintance of defendant 1, was supposed to answer the telephone calls from abroad.