The only purpose behind the exchange of real supplier accounts was to evade import taxes. The method of calculation was clarified by Yaakov Chibotro of the Ashdod Customs House, who stated that it was a simple arithmetic calculation, namely: "The amount of omission: the real value of goods divided by the reduced value of goods that was declared, multiplied by the amount of taxes charged, minus the amount of taxes charged."
As stated, the prosecution claims that the version of defendant 1, which was heard for the first time in court, according to which the person who ordered the goods from the suppliers was the "Mand Electric" company, which belongs to a man named Karim Bakir of the Palestinian Authority, is a suppressed and false version.
The prosecution notes that it was unable to locate a company called "Mand Electric", and that defendant 1 was not able to present a single medical document documenting a supplier-customer relationship between him or any of the corporations connected to him, and Bekir or Mand Electric.
Baqir's name is mentioned in the letter of the fraudulent supplier in the third charge (P/35A), as a member of the Palestinian company "ICC", and next to this registration, the telephone numbers of defendant 1, including his mobile phone number, appear as the telephone numbers of the same person in the wall. Since defendant 1 used to impersonate pseudonyms, but provided real phone numbers, it appears that Bekir was the defendant, and no one else. The fact is that all of the goods in Charge 3 were sold in Israel through Shlomo Metuk, and not even a small part of them reached distribution in the Palestinian Authority.
The prosecution argues that indictment 11 is unusual among the charges describing acts of forgery and fraud towards the customs authorities.
In this case, the goods were ordered in the name of the "Schloss" straw company, and the payment for it was not made by means of a letter of credit, as in the other charges, but by way of documents for collection, using the bank account of the "Magnum" company, which belongs to Alon Granot, after paying an advance and a bank transfer.