According to the prosecution, it was proven that Defendant 1, through Shlomo Metuk, produced the invoices from Rig in relation to Charges 9, 11-13, and the fact that Defendant 1 was responsible for issuing the invoices was proven by the prosecution to be true.
In light of the above, the prosecution seeks to convict the defendant of the offenses attributed to him in the 15th charge.
Defendant 1's arguments regarding Charge 15
- Defendant 1 denies the allegation in the indictment, according to which he, or others on his behalf, made use of fictitious invoices in order to create an accounting backup for transactions in the sale of goods that were imported by them. According to Defendant 1, he was not the owner of the goods that were imported from abroad, but that his involvement amounted to the provision of certain services to some of the companies, within the framework of his expertise. The defendant also denies his responsibility for failing to maintain books and not submitting reports on behalf of the companies in question, or for filing false reports, since he was not the owner and manager of the companies, nor was he a position or position that placed him responsible for carrying out such actions.
With regard to the Merig company, which is mentioned in the 15th indictment, the claim of defendant 1 is that he had no control over this company and therefore he was also not responsible for managing the company's books, submitting its reports and producing its tax invoices. According to Defendant 1, Marig was founded by Mario Weissman and Yigal Fadlon (Defendant 6), as appears from the documents of the Registrar of Companies (P/311). Weissman and Fadlon were the shareholders and managers of the company when it was founded. At the next stage, Fadlon retired from the company, and the company was subsequently registered in the name of Avraham Sztgagovsky and the Forum Office company, owned by Meir Ben Shimon and Aldo Parisi (Defendant 3). Defendant 1 claims that even at this stage, Mario Weissman remained as the company's executive director, and as far as the defendant was concerned, he was the one who controlled the company, operated it and managed its affairs. Defendant 1 was never a shareholder, director, manager or holder of any other position in Marig, and therefore the company was never under his control.