The Archive · 1937

INTOURIST DIRECTOR IS ARRESTED

London, July 28

Pássport frauds on a big scale in Soviet Russia led to the arrest of the director of the official Sovi travel agency "Intourist," M. Kurz, according to a Moscow despatch to the -"Morning Post" which s numerous former directors of Soviet banks took advantage of their posi-lions surreptitiously to obtain pas ports and visas for persons "wanted" by the Ogpu and also for foreign: who could thereby leave the country. For these services the directors demanded huge sums—Trans-Ocean,

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