ACQUITTAL REVERSED
Counterfeiters Sentenced by Appeal Court.
RUSSIAN CURRENCY NOTES
(Received 1 p.m.) BERLIN, July 2L. The Court's acquittal of Professor Karunidze on February 9, which in effect legally sanctioned counterfeiting as a political weapon, was to-day reversed by the Appellate Court, and Professor Karunidze was sentenced to 34 months' imprisonment. His confederates were sentenced to shorter terms and fined.
Professor Karunidze and six Germans were charged in January, 1930, with forging masses of Russian currency notes in the hope of creating an economic crash in Russia, and so overpowering the Soviet, with perhaps the securing of control of the Georgian oil wells. Their defence was that they desired only to free Georgia. On February D the court acquitted three of the defendants, and ordered proceedings against the others to be stopped. It declared that they had been actuated by unselfish political motives, and were entitled to the amnesty granted to political prisoners on the occasion or President Hindenburg's eightieth birthday.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 171, 22 July 1930, Page 7
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