Arrested for an attempt to defraud the Insurance Ca. of North America, E. Grueübaum and G. Wohl, German-Jewish refugees, faced the First Special District /Court yesterday morning. ae dose was remanded for one week to enable the Shanghai Municipal Police to carry out further investigations, The two men were arrested at their homes on Wednesday evening by Detective Inspector V. I. Ovsiannikoff of Central station.
The case goes back to February of last year when Gruenbaum was dismissed from the insurance company after he had threatened to bring the case to the United States Court, claiming that he had not been paid his commission for selling a number of policies.
Mr. R. A. Kreulen, general agent of the company, then engaged chart-grad accountants and it was learned that the man had collected the commission and was attempting to do so for the second time. Gruenbaum, who had been engaged by Mr. Kre len in February, 1939, at the commendation of a local Jo society, then accused his former employer of for: nature to the g his receipts.
Gruenbaum took the case to the American court where it was dismissed. Not satisfied with the decision, the accused started to libel Mr. Kreulen Sy spreading rumours ever where to the effect that the lott had cheated him out of his commission by forging nature. He wes warned at Central station t€ stop, but failed to do so.
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