FRONTIER FORMALITY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 180, 28 April 1931, Page 9

FRONTIER FORMALITY

Examination of Prisoner SPECIAL SHED PREPARED (Rec. April 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 26. The “Daily Mail’s” Paris,, correspondent says that an extraordinary transfrontier examination, unparalleled in European judicial procedure, will be conducted, when Riccardo Guallno, brought by the Italian authorities from Lipari, will be tried. A wooden shed with two doors is being erected on the Franco-Italian frontier with one door opening on the Italian side and the other on the French side. In the middle of the hut will be a table, half in Italy and half in France. Italian gendarmes will bring Gualino through the Italian door and sit with the Consul on the Italian side of the table. Two French magistrates and clerks will sit opposite and interrogate The proceedings are expected to last two days.

The case of Commendatore Riccardo Gualino concerns both Italy and France for the arrest of the Italian financier was the outcome of the French Oustric Bank crash. The Oustric scandal involved the arrest of M. Albert Oustric in November of last year on charges of fraud involving more than £10,000,009, and a sequel to the investigations was the arrest in Italy of Commendatore Riccardo Gualino, an international financier, and one of Italy’s biggest business men, who was found guilty of damaging Italy’s finances, and banished. . Gualino pioneered the artificial silk industry. He led the life of “a grand seigneur,” had a magnificent picture gallery, and owned a Moorish castle on the Riviera, and stud racehorses, purchasing famous thoroughbreds in England. His connection with the Oustric affair was revealed during a Paris inquiry.