SOVIET TRIALS
OFFICIALS SENTENCED SENT TO LABOUR CAMPS. LONDON, June 20. The Times’ Moscow correspondent says that the trial ot agricultural wreckers resulted in Grinenko. Atamanchuk and Furman, high officials of the Odessa organisation being sentenced to 10 years’ forced labour "in a distant labour camp,” and six others for varying terms. Alexandra Zumbilova, woman Commissar for Social Security in Crimea, has been arrested on a charge of being the ringleader of a group which embezzled public funds for use by the Trotskyists. She and her accomplices, who are official bookkeepers and accountants, are alleged to have misappropriated nearly 500,000 roubles by false applications for relief from nonexistent persons."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 146, 22 June 1937, Page 7
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