PENAL SERVITUDE AND FINE
EX-GERMAN LAWYER PUNISHED. EXCHANGE CONTROL OFFENCES. By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. London, Oct. 20. An ex-High Court lawyer in Germany named Hans Wegener, who had been a Swiss subject for three years, was sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude and fined £5OOO, several confederates receiving lighter punishments, though their property was confiscated, for complicity in Wegener’s allegedly treasonable organisation in Switzerland for getting money past the German foreign exchange control. Wegener allegedly profited in. a large way in the German-Jewish panic, securing 10 per cent, on the amounts transmitted.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1933, Page 7
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