STAVISKY CASE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22203, 5 March 1934, Page 9

STAVISKY CASE

HIDING OF CHEQUE BOOKS ARREST OF ALLEGED CULPRIT (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, March 2. Following a short interrogation the magistrate ordered Madame Stavisky's imprisonment on a charge of receiving and complicity in swindling. Other sensational arrest's are expected. PARIS, March 2. March 3, at 5 p.m.) Madame Arlette Stavisky's arrest followed Police Inspector Bony's 'announcement that he had traced the missing counterfoils of all Stavisky's cheques. These were handed to M. Sarraut by a mysterious person, who stated tSat he was an ex-boxer, and said that Madame Stavisky had .helped him to hide the cheque books./ ■ . PARIS, March 3. (Received March 4,,at 11.28 p.m.)

The latest development in the Stavisky scandal is the arrest of M. Guibourd Ribaud, who was formerly attached to the Ministry of Finance, on a charge of complicity, swindling and " trafficking in influence."; M. Ribaud has admitted receiving 19000 from Stavisky, which he paid to newspapers.. The police allege that he is one of the distributors of Stavisky's largess, and«accordingly importance is attached to 25 cheque counterfoils which were seized in /the house of a friend of Ribaud, wh/o personally surrendered other documents. M. Sarraut declares that the identity of the person who handed over .the counterfoils to him will not be revealed, adding that recent experience shows that this might expose him to dangerous reprisals. The police are now in possession of Stavisky counterfoils showing payments totalling two and a-half millions sterling. Leading persons are named on the counterfoils. ' ' '

The Sunday Express says that the counterfoils were discovered owing to a packet posted to persons in London being misdirected. The packet : was consequently returned to the French postal authorities, who on opening it were amazed at the contents.