David Cohen, the manager of the bail warehouse, was in telephone contact with Yehoshua Shloush, regarding the release of the goods.
The prosecution learned about the connection between Yehoshua Chelouche and defendant 1 regarding the release of the goods, the prosecution learned from Yehoshua Chelouche's recorded conversation with defendant 3, where there is a specific reference to the laptops, with Chelouche noting that defendant 1, who presented himself as an importer, was in contact with the customs brokers, regarding the release of the goods.
The bill of lading, which bears a forged stamp of the Arab Bank, was attached to a bill of sale in the amount of 3,288,800 French francs, on which the forged bank stamp was also stamped. The documents were delivered, as stated, to the customs broker company, which drew up an import license, and the import taxes were paid accordingly.
The prosecution claims that the goods came into the possession of defendant 4 and OPCI, with all the defendants dividing the spoils. Needless to say, even in this case, the consideration was not paid to the supplier of the goods, and any other claim in this regard has no substance.
In order to prove its claim, the prosecution presented an ICT invoice to Svilla (P/247) dated November 15, 1999 for NIS 2,953,604, and Svilla invoice No. 3 to OPCI (P/470) dated October 14, 1999 for NIS 2,953,548.
According to the prosecution, a comparison of the goods detailed in Cotradis's supplier account (P/39C) with the invoices of ICT and Sevilla shows that these are exactly the same goods, both according to the item numbers and according to the quantities (204 units).
It seems that there is no real dispute that 204 laptops received from the Cotradis supplier via the counterfeit waybill arrived at OPCI's warehouses.
The prosecution presented various documents, including a handwritten note of defendant 4 (P/389), which describes the manner in which the computers were distributed among the various partners. Among other things, these are OPCI's accounting books for 1999, which show that 204 laptops were allegedly purchased from Sevilla, while OPCI's sales invoices show only 75 computers. OPCI exported 42 additional laptops to the company in California, according to the export documents (P/479) and according to a record prepared by defendant 4, Avi Kalmaro (P/389).