P/30 - A form confirming payment to the contractor in respect of invoice 1089, in which it was stated at the bottom of the form, in handwriting: "Michael does not approve". To the question of the meaning of the comment, the witness replied that he was not involved in the project and therefore did not know the documents and did not approve them (p. 575).
In the witness's cross-examination, no matter related to this charge arose.
Testimony of Doron Tavorinsky
Main Investigation (Transcript of April 5, 2022)
- Tavorinsky is the owner of the D.B.S. company. He "brings works", and Michael, the chief engineer during the period relevant to the indictment, managed the company (pp. 732-733).
The company worked for about two or three years with the IPS, as a concessionaire/main contractor, after winning the tender (p. 733).
Tavorinsky, defendant 3, was convicted in accordance with his confession to the facts of an amended indictment of offenses of bribery and false registration in corporate documents under sections 291 and 243 of the Penal Law. This was due to his part in charges 6, 7 and 8. The witness served 7 months of community service.
- When a subcontractor finishes his work, he transfers it to D.B.S. Invoice Tax. Michael approves the payments, and then sits down with the witness, presents the matter to him, and the witness also signs. The checks themselves are signed by the witness or the defendant (pp. 735, 752).
- To the question of under what circumstances D.B.S. paid another person who did not perform work for her, he replied that he did not understand whether he had come to the interrogation or to testify, and that he wished to make use of the right to remain silent (however, it was explained to the witness that he did not have the right to remain silent) (p. 735). In the end, he replied that there was no such incident (p. 737). He also stated, with a clear lack of cooperation, that he did not remember what facts he had confessed to in the criminal proceedings against him. According to him, his defense attorneys had done everything and he only said "yes" (p. 738). In light of this, the attorney read the indictment aloud, and the witness confirmed that he had confessed to the sixth, seventh and eighth charges (pp. 739-740).
- In conversation No. 147 of January 24, 2018 between the defendant and Tavorinsky, the defendant told the defendant that he wanted to remind him that "Doron is alive," and the defendant replied that there would be work in the future. In his testimony, Tavorinsky explained his words "Doron is alive" by saying that the defendant did not give him a job at that time. Tavorinsky was indeed the main contractor, but as a construction officer in the Central District the defendant was the one who gave the works, alongside the work given by the Construction District Headquarters (pp. 746-747).
This is also the case in conversation No. 225 of January 28, 2018, in which Tavorinsky explained that the defendant had arranged for him to pay a reassignment of 15%, while he wanted 20% and fought with the defendant in order to receive them (p. 753).