WHOLESALE EMBEZZLEMENT.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 61, 14 March 1910, Page 5

WHOLESALE EMBEZZLEMENT.

Press Assn —By telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, March 13.

M. Duez confessed to embezzling £20,000 when he was "a solicitor's clerk. He had since lost £25,000 on the Stock Exchange.

The police raided the house of Duez's mistress and discovered £BOOO worth of jewellery and various shares and bank accounts.

They are also searching the house of a woman to whom Duez arranged to advance £12,000.

(Received March 14, 8.45 a.m.) PARIS, March 13.

The examining magistrate, who has charge of the Duez case, discovered that 150 persons belonging to the political world and the press were bribed under a false name by Duez. The latter refuses to disclose the names.

Martin, formerly his assistant, has been arrested on a charge of complicity in the liquidation scandals.

M. Duez liquidator for several religious associations, was arrested in Paris for misappropriating £200,000. M. Duez attributed the defalcations to unlucky speculations on the racecourse.