Charties Of Fraud
According to the Calcutta correspondent of the United Press, G. K Ghose, a senior member of the Indian Civil Service, who claimed that he had received large sums from the British Cabinet for secret service work during the war, was sentenced in absentia today to five years' imprisonment for defrauding the Indian Government.- He was also 'fined £375.000 by a special tribunal in Calcutta. Ghose is believed to be in eastern Pakistan. Twenty-one other persons. were charged with abetting and conspiring with Ghose to defraud the Indian Government of nearly £375,000. Eleven of the accused were found guilty. Ghose claimed that £225,00 in money and other assets seized by the Government were part of the payments made to him by the British August 31.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1949, Page 7
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