WOOLCOTT-FORBES TO BE SENT TO AUSTRALIA
I Receive,! October 27, 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 27. Immediate action to have John Woolcot t-Forbes returned Io Australia folfollowing his arrest in Mexico City Inis been announced by the Premier of New South Wales, Mr. McKell. Forbes was formerly managing director of the Producers’ and General Finance Corporation, Limited, Sydney. In January, 1939, he was arrested in Bombay on charges alleging conspiracy to cheat and defraud the shareholders of several companies of large sums, lie disappeared while on bail and later at various times was reported to have been seen in France and Eire. Forbes was declared bankrupt in Sydney in 19-10. He built a dO-roomed mansion here at an estimated cost of £54,000. Two men alleged to have been former associates of Forbes were sentenced last year to terms of imprisonment up to live years for fraud.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 28, 28 October 1942, Page 5
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145WOOLCOTT-FORBES TO BE SENT TO AUSTRALIA Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 28, 28 October 1942, Page 5
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