Defendant 1 mentions that in his interrogations with the police, Araldo Frizzi gave detailed and clear versions that included a detailed description of the Arab customers who contacted him, including their phone numbers and a description of their body appearance. On the other hand, in court Defendant 3 gave a suppressed, tendentious version, full of contradictions and refutations, which is not worthy of trust. As it appears from the documents, defendant 3 ordered the goods for the ICC from the Palestinian Authority, without Defendant 1 having any connection with this company. The prosecution's claim that Frizzi ordered the goods on behalf of Uri Resch is not based on admissible evidence and is based solely on the words of Frizzi himself, which, according to defendant 1, are devoid of any weight and evidentiary value. Defendant 1 learned of the transaction, only after Defendant 3 contacted him and told him that his client ICC, who has ordered computers to Israel, needs assistance in releasing the goods. As a result, defendant 1 referred Frizzi to Yehoshua Shlosh, who introduced himself as a customs broker engaged in the release of goods and a native speaker of the Arabic language. Yehoshua Shlosh later approached him, and asked him to receive financing services for the costs and expenses of releasing the goods, and defendant 1 agreed to provide these services to three.
As for the company ICT, Defendant 1 first heard about it from Yehoshua Shlosh, who introduced the company as his customer in need of financing assistance. In the transaction that is the subject of the seventh indictment, the ICT as the person responsible for the release of the goods for the customer, the ICC. According to the approach of defendant 1, the ICT is not a straw company as the prosecution claims, and in any event defendant 1 had no connection with this company, and he was never in a position of control or management of the company ICT.
Defendant 1 denies that a bill of lading was used on the back of which a forged stamp was stamped. According to him, he had nothing to do with the bill of lading and the stamp on the bill, nor did he have anything to do with receiving the goods.