Since Dekir wanted the goods to be released by a recognized Israeli company to customs, he contacted Shlomo Metuk, who connected him with Schloss, which provided clearance services in exchange for a commission. For this purpose, it was agreed that Schloss would be recorded as informed in the bill of lading. Since Bekir's clients had withdrawn from the transaction and he was unable to raise the necessary amount to pay the supplier, Bekir approached defendant 1 and Shlomo Matuk with a request to help him find a company that would adopt his order. Defendant 1 confirms that he contacted Plans and offered it to adopt the order, but did not complete his handling and therefore does not know whether the adoption transaction has been executed. Defendant 1 learned about the completion of the transaction from Shlomo Metok.
Plans acquired the rights of Bekir and Mand Electric in the deal, and stepped into their shoes. Here, too, the rights were purchased at a lower price than that paid to the supplier, due to the decline in the value of the international market for the goods. Later, Plans asked to sell the merchandise, and Shlomo Metuk took care of finding a buyer. He suggested that the importer who would purchase the goods from Plans would be Schloss, and that the sales account prepared as a result reflected the sale price of the goods from Plans to Schloss.
In any event, defendant 1 had no involvement in the production or printing of the sale account, and to the best of his knowledge, it was not a false account. After Schloss acquired the company from Planas, Shlomo Sweet asked to market it through the Marig company, which had an exemption from withholding tax. Therefore, Schloss sold the merchandise, through Merig, to an Israeli dealer called MIC , which is owned by the Haring brothers. After the conclusion of the transaction, it was decided that the goods would be released by the customs broker of MIC, Maurice Raphael.
Defendant 1 financed part of the import taxes, at the request of Schloss and Shlomo Metok, through the Nofar Dynamic company and through other financiers, apparently Calderon, in the form of sub-financing. According to defendant 1, he did not submit to the Customs Authority a receipt for the import of microwaves, to which a sales account from Plans was attached. The allegation in the indictment that Defendant 1 gave MIC the false sales account, which was attached to twelve import records, is denied by Defendant 1. According to him, he had never heard of the Haring brothers or met them, and he claimed that the only contact he worked with was Shlomo Metok.