In his testimony in court, defendant 3 had reservations about the statement that he had established a company for Uri Resh, but did not retract his statement that Ben Shimon and his ex-wife had agreed to register as owners of the company. In his testimony in court, defendant 3 claimed that : "After I was appointed by Uri to look for several suppliers for his clients, Michel Ben Simon (i.e., Meir Ben Shimon – A.S.) He asked to have a relationship with Uri, he called Uri... We were in a meeting with Ben Simon and Uri, and later it turned out that they had entered into business together" (p. 4527 of the transcript, paras. 2-11).
On the other hand, Meir Ben Shimon testified in court that he had no contact with Uri Resch and any knowledge of the registration of the JCC and ICT companies. Counsel for Defendant 3, Attorney Orit Hayoun, accused Ben Shimon of knowing Defendant 1 and that he had given his and his wife's identity cards for the purpose of establishing the aforementioned companies, to which the witness responded by saying: "A lie, it's imaginary."
On the basis of the totality of the evidence presented to me, which is essentially circumstantial evidence, it can be determined that Defendant 3 did indeed provide Defendant 1 with the photographs of the identity cards and personal details of Meir Ben Shimon and his ex-wife Lucien Sadeh, knowing that these would be used for the purpose of establishing companies, for the needs of Defendant 1.
In fact, defendant 3 admitted that he did so in his conversation with the police investigator documented in Memorandum P/333, but claimed that this was done voluntarily and with the knowledge of the two. This also arises from the recorded conversation of Defendant 3 with Yehoshua Shlosh, although he mentioned the transfer of details and the identity card of one person, without mentioning the ex-wife of Meir Ben Shimon.
The only question that needs to be decided is, therefore, whether the details were transferred with the knowledge and consent of Ben Shimon and his ex-wife, or was this done without their knowledge, and without them conceiving that their details would be used for the purpose of establishing a company, for the needs of defendant 1?