On the basis of all the evidence presented to me, I convict defendants 1 and 3 of two offenses of forgery of a document with the intention of obtaining something through it under aggravated circumstances, under section 418 of the Penal Law; two offenses of using a forged document, under section 420 of the Penal Law; and one offense of fraudulent receipt under aggravated circumstances, under section 415 of the Penal Law.
Only Defendant 1 will be convicted of offenses under the Customs Ordinance and the VAT Law, which are attributed to him in the framework of this indictment.
Defendant 4 will be convicted of the offense of receiving assets obtained in the crime, under section 411 of the Penal Law, and will be acquitted, due to doubt, of the other offenses attributed to him in this indictment.
Charge No. 6
- According to the facts described in Charge No. 6, Defendants 1 - 4, through Defendant 3 and the firm "Forum Office Import and Export", entered into an agreement with the company ICP International Computer Prodoucts Belgium BV, for the purchase of goods of the type of computer processors, supposedly for a company PRL in the territories of the Palestinian Authority.
I would like to point out already that the PRL, such as a company ICCis a fictitious company, which has no business activity, and it was falsely presented as an importer in this transaction.
It should be noted that the prosecution presented a letter that was allegedly issued by the PRL (P/293), in which Ephraim Meir's telephone numbers appear, and there is no doubt that this is a forged document, since it has not been claimed by anyone that Ephraim Meir has any connection with the PRL. It is reasonable to assume that this document was prepared by any of the defendants, in order to create a false impression, as if the PRL It is an active company, which has a real existence in the commercial world. This document was supposedly sent by the PRL, and signed by a man named Faisal Abu-Sani. In this letter, the details of the bank relating to the transaction were provided (Palestine International Bank), and as noted, unsurprisingly, the letter contains Ephraim Meir's phone and fax number.