Charge No. 12
- On September 13, 1999, defendant 1 submitted to the Customs Authority, on behalf of Schloss and through the customs broker "On the Day Multi Models Trade and Customs Services Ltd.", a license for the import of goods into Israel of the type of televisions. According to the list, the value of the goods is $53,420, and attached to it was a document pretending to be a sales account by Planas S.P.R.L. , which is supposed to be the supplier of goods.
The prosecution claims that this is a false sales account, and that the registration made according to it is also false. The goods were not purchased from Planas S.P.R.L. , but from the company Chugh Electronics (S) Pte. Limited from Singapore, for $71,350.20.
The prosecution claims that on various dates thereafter, defendant 1 submitted two additional false records to the Customs Authority, in order to release some of the aforementioned goods, to which a copy of the false sales account was attached. The sales account was forged by defendant 1 with the aim of using it for the purpose of defrauding the customs and VAT authorities. In these acts, defendant 1 falsely declared that the value of goods was lower than the real value, and as a result, he reduced the amount of import taxes that he would have been charged, had it not been for the fraud.
The rights in the balance of the goods that have not yet been released were sold by Defendant 1 through Shlomo Metuk to "Clinton Electronics (1992) Ltd.", which acted to release the balance of the goods and bore the balance of the reduced import taxes, due to the actions of Defendant 1.
The prosecution further claims that defendant 1, through Shlomo Metuk, gave the Clinton company the false sales account, which was attached to six registers, which were submitted by the Clinton company for the purpose of releasing the goods. The prosecution further claims that defendant 1 received the proceeds from the sale of his rights in the goods, fraudulently and under aggravated circumstances, using the false sales account, with the knowledge and intention that the Clinton people would submit to the customs authorities, false records relied on the false sale account, for the purpose of releasing the goods. In doing so, defendant 1 made use of a forged document, misled the customs officials, defrauded the State Treasury and evaded the payment of import taxes in the total amount of NIS 89,654.