Something Like a Forgery !
£25,000,000 WOETH OF BONDS KREUGEE’S LAST PLUNGE United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Thursday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, April 14. The Stockholm correspondent of the Daiiy Telegraph says that one of the most sensational rumours following Kreuger’s suicide was the alleged discovery of a largo amount of forged foreign Government bonds.
The rumour was denied, but there is no doubt now that it is true. Kreuger told hi 3 board that a loan of £25,000,000 was being made to the Italian Government in exchange for a match monopoly. As a matter of fact no agreement was reached, but the Italian Treasury bonds were printed in Stockholm to the order of Kreuger and entered in the books as assets.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6834, 15 April 1932, Page 7
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