Joseph Lenin, released from the gaol last year' after serving three years in connection with the $184,000 cheque fraud on the Chartered. Bank, was charged in the First Special District Court on Mar. 21 with fraud and further charged with making the commission of fraud a profession. A jcondefendant was Morris Levitsky, Both were remanded till March 23, The prosecution alleged that Tonin and Levitsky visited a British stock exchange brokerage office "several times recently and presented two drafts "amounting to "over. halt a million dollars in local. eurrenc; They were alleged to have told broker that the drafts could be cash banks the complainant, they had been certified by several consulates. Tonin and Levitsky gave the drafts as secur and "borrowed sums of money. Tt was lat the two drafts w worthless, the signatures and endorse ments, by several consulates having Leon forged, It was alleged,
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