FORGED NOTE SCANDAL.
BRUSSELS, Alay 15. Are false French bank-notes being manufactured in Belgium? The statement that they are is macio by a convict named Arthur Bricout, in prison at Avesnes, France. Oil his information the Belgian police, acting with the French police, have arrested Georges La by, of Ladeuze, Hainault, and a chemist of Jcmappcs, named Robert Picliel. The officers are very reticent about the affair, for it is rumoured that some highly placed personages are implicated. It is alleged that La by offered to sell Bricout nil unlimited number ol spurious French 100-franc notes at the price of 40 Belgian francs each, and that Riciiel acted as intermediary. Yesterday the three men were brought face to face at the frontier, and after lengthy questioning admitted that they had had dealings together in tobacco and cocaine but not in banknotes. Bricout was able to describe details of the false notes be is said to have put into circulation. The description corresponds with that of counterfeit notes detected by the Bank of Prance.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1928, Page 3
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173FORGED NOTE SCANDAL. Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1928, Page 3
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