The defendant denied that he transferred the supplier's accounts of PLANAS to the customs broker for the purpose of releasing the goods.
The defendant further claimed that: "In the past two years, at the request of Elhanan Tenenbaum, he has asked me to print supplier accounts in the name of PLANAS... to replace the real vendor accounts in the name of Opsa, which were valued at approximately 3 times the value of the goods quoted in the PLANAS accounts. In some cases, I printed the supplier's accounts in the name of PLANAS, and in other cases, Elhanan printed the supplier's accounts in the name of PLANAS, I printed the accounts at the Migdal printing office in Herzliya, and in another case I printed a supplier's account in the name of PLANAS."
In addition, Defendant 1 claimed that Elhanan Tenenbaum was the one who handled the release of the goods from customs.
There is no doubt that Defendant 1 gave a false version at first, when he claimed that the supplier's accounts of PLANAS were given to him by Avi Stavitzky, a man whose identity remains unknown, and it can certainly be said that this is a completely false identity. Subsequently, defendant 1 confirmed that he himself had printed the supplier accounts of PLANAS, whether they were empty accounts, in which the PLANAS logo appeared, or full supplier accounts, in which the value of the goods was radically reduced from their real value, according to the supplier accounts of Opsa.
Defendant 1 went further when he claimed that the remarks were done in the name and at the request of Elhanan Tenenbaum, who was, as you may recall, at the time held captive by Hezbollah and had no information about his fate, and it was certainly not known when, if any, he would be released from captivity.
There was no difficulty in incorporating Elhanan Tenenbaum's name into all the criminal activity relating to the PLANAS company, and attributing to him all the criminal acts that were committed in this context, from the forgery of the documents of the PLANAS company to the provision of false information about the fact that this company was the supplier of the goods, and about the cost of the goods that were sent to Israel. As will be clarified below, all of these acts were committed by defendant 1, who was also the living spirit in the affairs that are the subject of the eighth indictment.