ARGENTINE OFFICIALS CHARGED WITH FRAUD
BUENOS-AIRES, Dec. 13. Fourteen persons, including some of President Peron’s closest advisers, were charged todav with defrauding the Argent-’-'e Government of at least 2.100,000 dollars. Judge Oscar Baltran, who conducted the preliminary investigation, said the alleged fraud involved obtaining a loan of Argentine funds for the transfer of non-existent aluminium plant from Italy to Argentina. He said Italians who had originated the deal set aside 640,000 dollars of 2,100,000 for bribes to Argentine officials. The judge said President Peron himself ordered the initial investigation after suspicion had directed itself at the chief of the presidential bodyguard and the presidential co-ordina-tor of the national five-year plan.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22820, 15 December 1948, Page 10
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