Death Sentences for Alleged Abuse of Office Moscow, Jan. 3. oficial posts, Comrades Polakoy, with obs their
Commercial Director of the Grain Department of the State Bank, and hie assistant, Telesnin, have been sentenced to death. All their property has been confiscated.
Nine merchants have been sentenced to varying terms on cognate charges.
Tt was alleged that Comrades Poliakov and Telesnin communicated secret commercial information to private merchants and sold the Intter grain at more favourable terms than to State Departments.
—Reuter.
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