HUGE FINES ON SMUGGLERS.
TOTAL OF £2,650,000
Fines to a total of £2,650,000 wore recently imposed on a gang of illicit dealers in alcohol convicted at Offenburg, about ten miles from S rasslung. Tho highest individual fine was £515,000, which was adjudged in two cases, and the lowest £6OOO. Ten of the convicted men were also sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from six weeks to two and a-lialf years.
It was alleged during the trial that London bankers were the victims of Haniburg sugar smugglers, whose operations nvolved (lie loss of £1.000,000. A curious turn has been given to the case by tin publication of a novel dealing with it. It is said lo be evident that the author is intimately fani'liar with all the operations of tho smugglers. Tho publisher, though taken into custody, has s'.ubbornly refused to disclose ihe author's name.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21224, 2 July 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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