SWINDLER SENTENCED
RUSSIAN OIL FIELD FRAUD
(A.P.A. and "Sun.")
LONDON, 22nd Soptombor. Josopk Aspinall, 53 years of ago, of London, was sontoncod to four yoars, and his son James to nine months' imprisonmont, for obtaining, by falso protoncos, £16,000 from forty-three persons in connection with tho now Grozny oildfiolds, holding oil-boaring land in Russia, at present valuoloss owing to its boing confiscated by Bolsheviks. Tho Aspinalla represented that they hold a majority of tho shares,, and induced would-bo investors to subscribo sums ranging from £30 to £2000 to assist tho schomo to forco np tho markot. Tho police inspector mud that tho older prisonor had obtained nearly £200,000 fraudulently in tho last twonty yoars. Tho polico rogardod him as an unscrupulous swindler.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 73, 23 September 1927, Page 7
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122SWINDLER SENTENCED Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 73, 23 September 1927, Page 7
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