DEATH SENTENCE ON TWO FORMER BULGARIAN CABINET MINISTERS
SOFIA, Dec 14.—The former Bulgarian vice-Premier, Traicho Kostov, was today sentenced to death by the Bulgarian Supreme Court, which had been trying him on treason charges. The former Finance Minister, Ivan Stephanov, was sentenced to be hanged. There is no appeal from the sentence, which was given by the Supreme Court, composed of three judges and four jurors elected by the Bulgarian Parliament.
Five of Kostov’s 10 co-defendants, including Stephanox, and the former rubber King Ivan Gevrenov, were then sentenced to life imprisonment. Three of the other defendants received 15 years, one received 12 years and one eight years.
11 were accused of treason in an alleged plot to separate Bulgaria from Russia and annex it to Yugoslavia in an anti-Soviet Balkan federation.
Kostov was the only one of the accused to claim innocence.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 16 December 1949, Page 5
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