It should be noted that the accounts of Contel and Storella appear with the same address and telephone numbers, even though they are two different companies. No real explanation was given for this in the testimony of defendant 1.
The testimony of Roni Moshe, of Mentfield, indicates that it was Defendant 1 who handled the release of the goods, the subject of the ninth indictment, on behalf of Schloss.
Shlomo Metuk testified that he was engaged in the sale of the goods that are the subject of the ninth indictment (DVDs and radiotapes) on behalf of Uri Resch, and that he transferred the proceeds of the sale to Defendant 1: "... He brought me merchandise, I went and offered it for sale and sold it to people I knew and took care of the coverage, and I passed it on to Uri" (p. 2075 of the transcript, paras. 1-2).
As stated, the import license, to which the false supplier's account was attached, was submitted to the Customs Authority and led to a reduction in the required import taxes, in the amount of NIS 54,814, and thus defendant 1 committed the offenses attributed to him in the framework of this indictment.
Charge No. 10
- In this indictment, the goods were purchased from Rasco from Hong Kong for $84,750, as indicated by the letter of credit opened at the International Bank of Israel, at the request of Defendant 1 and through the Lantex company, which belongs to Aharon Calderon.
Defendant 1 submitted an import license in the name of Schloss and through the customs broker Continental Ltd., to which was attached a sales account from the Storla company, which is supposed to be the supplier of the goods. In this sales account, the cost of the goods was reduced to $64,100 .
Subsequently, defendant 1 submitted to the Customs Authority five additional false invoices, for the purpose of releasing the aforementioned goods, to which a copy of the sales account was attached on behalf of Storla.
Storla's supplier account is false and forged, since Storla did not supply the goods and is not connected to the import transaction.