RUSSIAN SCANDALS.
OFFICIALS STEAL MILLIONS. By Tclejjraph—Press Association—Copyright. St. Petersburg, January 8. In August last, Count Medom, a member of the Imperial Council, who was detailed to reform the Western Siberian railway system, reported that four stations, including Omsk and Krasnoyarsk, had defrauded tho Government of three million pounds. in consequence, an investigation was ordered. This lias now ended. Ninety thousand complaints were inquired into. The defalcations amount to at least twenty million roubles. It was proved that high officials frequently did not givo documents, but pocketed tho freights. Tho names of many non-existent persons, and also dead persons, were on the pay-sheets.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1021, 10 January 1911, Page 5
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