Following the first indictment, it was alleged that on March 24, 1999, two containers arrived in Israel, and on March 30, 1999, two more of the five containers through which the goods were transported to Israel arrived. The supplier of goods, who did not receive his money for the first container, left in his control the bills of lading relating to the additional four containers. They were stored under the control of the ship's agent, Carmel Shipping Services Ltd., at the cargo terminal, and in the absence of bills of lading, the goods could not be released at all.
According to the prosecution, on April 28, 1999, defendant 2, through the customs broker, Bashai Yosef Ltd., submitted a receipt intended for the release of two of the four containers from customs and from the cargo terminal. The two containers were released in this way and transported to the warehouse "Okeanos Company Ltd". The prosecution further claims that defendant 2 presented the customs broker with a gate certificate that appears to be a certificate issued by the ship's agent, in order to use it to release the aforementioned containers. The customs broker was also presented with a document posing as a sales account in the amount of $69,580, by GB Grant & Bowman Ltd. from Britain, which is supposed to be the supplier of goods on account of the sale. The prosecution claims that the aforementioned bill of sale, as well as the registration made thereunder, are false. The goods were not purchased from GB Grant & Bowman Ltd., as appears from the false list, but were provided by Regent. Also, the value of the goods according to the real supplier's account is $125,678, and not as declared. It was further claimed that the two gate certificates, which were used to release the containers, were forged and were not issued by the ship's agent, Carmel Shipping Services Ltd., in the absence of bills of lading.
The prosecution claims that defendants 1 and 2 provided the customs broker with false supplier accounts in order to use them for customs fraud, and in order to reduce the amount they were supposed to pay as import taxes, as well as in order to disguise the fact that they took the goods illegally.