DEALS IN GERMANY

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 July 1946, Page 6

DEALS IN GERMANY

BLACK MARKET LIQUOR A SALES BRITISH OFFICIAL’S OFFENCE LONDON, July 28. . Peter Stainer, aged 44, who is stated to bo the lord of throe Fnghrh manors, has been sentenced to Jour years' penal servitude, and fined £lOOO, for black marketing while a member of the British Military Government in Germany, says the Daily Mail’s Hanover correspondent. Stainer’s deals are said to be so large that he had books of account kept by his German fiancee on whom he said, he intended to settle £16,000. The public prosecutor said that Stainer was connected with the control of alcohol, and, while officially denying liquor to Germans, he was in a position to supply them in an underhand way. .His transactions resulted in a serious loss of sterling. The Court stipulated that, unless the fine is paid in sterling, in under one year, Stainer shall serve another year’s gaol sentence. His counsel said that in England Stainer was a man of substance and integrity. He did not embark on this adventure to enrich himself, but to get a home together for the German girl, with whom he was deeply in love, and vyhom he intended to marry as soon as possible. Counsel then added Stainer was a former R.A.F. fighter pilot. He was agent for the- Earl of Carlisle.