Described as Rich Man Evidence against Morris Levitsky and Joseph Tonin, charged with defrauding a well-known, British stock broker of. $9,660 and further charged with making the commis sion of fraud a profession, was produced by the police in the First Special District Court yesterday afternoon in the form of several printing plates and duplicates of alleged forged bank documents.
The plates were made by tw Chinese printing shops, one ' in Avenue Foch and the other in Weihaiwei Road, by order of Michae Paderevsky, a Russian newspaperman also in custody, it was said. A witness from one of these shops was in court, but Paderevsky said he was not sure whether he had ordered the printing work.
The prosecution alleged that a Portuguese named Remedios was also concerned in the fraud and he was to appear in his consular court.
There were many charges against Lenin and Levitsky. As far as the case in which the British broker was the complainant was concerned, the two Russians used aliases in the commission of offence, lenin describing himself as Pashinoff and, on another occasion, as Parogof, and Levitsky, as Levit.
When Levitsky met the Britis broker, he was alleged to have declared that his friend, meaning Lenin, was a rich man detailed to do some secret work for the Soviet Government and had money" in banks in Brussels, the officials would not allow him-to remit the money here. That was why he needed help.
Levitsky then introduced the compizinant to Lenin who, it was alleged, produced a bank deposit receipt and, on another occasion, a draft, the amount of each of whick ran into six figures. Using certain pretext, they asked the complainant to advance some money. The complainant loaned them total of $9,660, all in cheques.
After hearing several witness testimony, the Judge adjourned the hearing till April 7.
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