The indictment claimed that the aforementioned sales account was false, since the goods were not purchased from this company, but were supposed to be purchased from the supplier for $413,800, with this account not addressed toJCC Rather, it is forPRL.
The forged bill of lading, the false bill of sale and the packing list of the goods were delivered by the defendants to the customs broker, Yes-Line, according to which he drew up an import invoice, with the value of the goods being $84,050, while the real value is $413,800, an amount that was not paid at all to the supplier. The customs broker paid reduced import taxes for the defendants.
Due to information received from the customs authorities in advance, the goods were removed from their original packaging and replaced with bricks, in such a way that the packaging of the goods was pretended to contain the goods themselves.
Defendant 4 received what was expected to be the goods, for the defendants, through a transport company hired by defendant 2, believing that they were receiving the goods themselves.
In these acts, the defendants forged documents (a bill of lading bearing the forged bank stamp and the false bill of sale), used them and fraudulently received the goods through them, as well as a reduction in import taxes, all under aggravated circumstances. The bill of sale was forged by the defendants in order to use it for customs fraud, and in order to disguise the fact that they had taken the goods illegally.
In declaring the value of the goods lower than the real value, the defendants reduced the import taxes to which they would have been liable had it not been for the fraud, and they evaded the payment of import taxes in the total amount of NIS 226,030.
The prosecution's arguments regarding the sixth charge
- These goods were released according to an import license (P/233) in the name of the importer, who according to the prosecution is the straw company JCC, through the customs broker "Yes-Line". The goods were released from the freight forwarder by means of a delivery certificate, and based on a copy of the air transport document bearing a forged grandfather stamp of the Arab Bank.
The prosecution notes that the shipping company's man, Avner Yulzari, testified that the first bank conversion that was received did not satisfy him, and therefore he called Yehoshua Shlosh, and told him that he would take the bill of lading with the bank conversion and arrange a proper transfer. He said he was approached by a man and a woman, who introduced themselves as messengers of three, and he handed them the bill of lading.