Fruit juice employees siphon funds
NZPA-Reuter Moscow Employees of a Soviet fruit juice factory siphoned off funds worth $931,300 and manufactured non-fruit drinks to fulfill their production quotas, says a Soviet newspaper. The daily ’'Selskaj'a Zhizn” (Village Life), sa'id that 44 people, including top managers, were convicted on corruption charges arising from the scandal centred on a factory in the southern republic of Azerbaijan. Employees had been pocketing slate cash for two years, reselling fruit for their own profit so successfully that one man had amassed a personal fortune of about $309,970. All those involved had been given severe sentences. The newspaper did not give details.
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Press, 14 June 1984, Page 12
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