AUDACIOUS SWINDLE

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4179, 28 February 1934, Page 7

AUDACIOUS SWINDLE

Political Scandal BOGUS JUGOSLAV BILL PUT THROUGH PARLIAMENT (Aust, md N.Z. Cable) Belgrade, February 26 ■A political scandal, expected to have repercussions similar to the Stavisky affair, has caused a sensation in Jugoslavia. The National Parliament, after an angry debate, withdraw the immunity of the Bosnian Deputy Husein Kaditeh, to enable his trial on charges of fraudulently securing bonds worth £BI.OOO. It is alleged that he carried out one of the most audacious sw-indles ever known inside any Parliament, securing tlie passage of a bogus Bill enabling him and liis associates to sell large estates at sometimes 75 times their value when under the agrarian reform, nobles’ estates were seized and portioned out to the peasants. One hundred Deputies supported the restoration of the death penalty in cases of defrauding the State of amounts exceeding £2OO.