CONSPIRACY CHARGES

Otaki Mail, 5 July 1933, Page 3

CONSPIRACY CHARGES

DIRECTORS OF CHOSEN CORPORATION COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. flic, financier Martin Coles Ilarman (“King of Lundy Island”, and his associates 11. 11, ibauds, 11. F. Coni glavu and E. I J .-CUangeat, were coniknitted for trial on charges of conspirHkV' to defraud in" connection with a syndicate styled the “Chosen PFirpuration.” F Harman, who recently hold control |of companies worth’Tl-i,UUO,UUU, was arrested in Londun on February dSth. ||U was charged, with the three other Biancicrs, named above, with conHfirucy •to defraud. Ali are directors v- tho Chosen Corporation, Ltd., a ■iUU,OUU concern which owns ali the BlU’o’ capital, of three Japanese com which in turn Jioid seventymining claims iu Korea. WAc the height of success a few ■ears back Harman bought Luudy IsKind, in the Bristol Channel, where he iiitablished what was virtually an' iuimpendent kingdom with himself ""as Sovereign. ilo. gave Luudy its own t-miiagc, stamps and laws, but his rule .was abruptly formulated when the courts hold he had committed au illegal act in issuing his famous “puffin” coins. Harman started an a clerk in the slock department of Hazard Brothers, and four years ago he and associates -controlled upward of twenty large companies.,