RUSSIAN JUSTICE
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION i 'Times” Service.) LONDON, March 3. “The Times’s” Riga corresponded states: The trial of ninety-six judges and lawyers accused of bribery and corruption resulted in seventy convictions, the sentences ranging from two to ten years’ imprisonment. The Court, in explaining that the absence of death sentences was due to the offenders’ proletariat origin, stated that the trial- disclosed the sorriest picture of administration of justice by untrained judges. Many of the accused were almost illiterate. The most prominent figure was Demchenko who was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. He was longknown as the King of Liberators, because he contrived the release of accused persons able to pay the price.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 March 1926, Page 5
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