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AGRICULTURAL WRECKERS SENTENCED WOMAN COMMISSAR ARRESTED I United Press A ,ciation-Hy Electric Telegraph—Copy rich tl (Received 21st June, noon) LONDON, 20th June. “The Times” Moscow correspondent says that ihe trial of the agricultural wreckers resulted in Grinenko, Atamanchuk, and Furman, an high official of an Odessa organisation being sentenced to 10 years’ forced labour, “in a distant labour camp,” and six others for varying terms. Alexandra Zumbilova, the woman Commissar for Social Security in the Crimea, was arrested on a charge of being the ring-leader of a group which embezzled public funds for use by Trotskyists. She and her accomplices who are the official book-keepers and accountants, are alleged to have misappropriated nearly 500,000 roubles by false applications for relief from nonexistent persons.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 21 June 1937, Page 5
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125STALIN PURGE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 21 June 1937, Page 5
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