SOVIET OFFICIALS
CONDEMNED FOR SMUGGLING. (Australian Press Assn.) (By Gable—Press Assn.— Copyright.) MOSCOW, October 11. A woman prosecutor demanded death sentences at the trial of 26 persons accused of conspiring with an illegal Latvian organisation for the smuggling of diamonds and currency from the Soviet. The Court held that certain officials of the Latvian Mission, particularly the former Commercial Attache, all of whom fled, had been linked up with in Moscow, while the Latvian Diplomatic Post was used for the smuggling. The Court sentenced two of the speculators to death, a woman employee of the Latvian Mission, to six years’ imprisonment, and the others to imprisonment and fines. Three were acquitted.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1929, Page 7
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