HUGE FINES
ILLICIT LIQUOR DEALINGS
PROSECUTIONS IN GERMANY,
BERLIN, May 16. (Received May 16, at 9.5 p.m.)
A gang of illicit dealers in alcohol near Strasbourg was fined a total of £2,650,000, The highest individual fine was £515,000. Ten of the gang were also imprisoned. It was alleged during the trial that similar smuggling of sugar at Hamburg involved London bankers in a loss of £1,000,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21646, 17 May 1932, Page 7
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