GRAFT
ROGUES UNMASKED “ SOVIET TRADE ” STUNTS, LONDON, July 15. Tho Berlin correspondent of tho ‘Daily News’ reports that one of tho biggest attempted international graft scandals is revealed by the Federation of German Industries in a statement which shows that twenty-two German export houses, some of them of worldwide reputation, ignoring their pledge to the Trade Bureau, signed agreements with tho notorious Pole, Kutishor, now_ in prison, whereby Kutishcr promised to obtain huge orders hv bribing Soviet officials. Three hundred firms throughout _ the country wore negotiating with Kutisher »hcn ho was arrested. Inquiries show that Russian officials, either owing to their high notions of business morality or to the fears of spies, cannot easily ho bribed. The Soviet have now circulated in Britain and Germany a “ black list ” of rogues who have been posing as middlemen in tho Russian trade.
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Evening Star, Issue 19310, 24 July 1926, Page 21
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140GRAFT Evening Star, Issue 19310, 24 July 1926, Page 21
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