HIDING HIS FAST.
RED LEADER’S CRIME
MOSCOW, April 24
Willy Ibraimoff, who for seven years was president of- the autonomous Soviet Republic of the Crimea, has been sentenced to be shot by order of the, Soviet High Court, sitting in Simperopol, capital of the Crimea. ..-.-He was charged with stangling, with his own hands, a witness of his criminal past in tho Red Army—a partisan veteran peasant. This man, Cholak, was fully aware of Ibraimoff’s long career as a bandit before he was elected president, and had seen his misdeeds while in office, including tho Organising of robbery and murder and the embezzling -of £4OOO. It is stated, that Ibraimoff invited Cholak to his flat, strangeld him in the kitchen, and buried his body in a rubbish heap. \ His agents murdered another witness. The Crimea Vice-President, Mus-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 148, 23 May 1928, Page 11
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