PRESIDENT TO DIE
CRIMEAN SOVIET REPUBLIC PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER MOSCOW, May 3. Willy Ibraimoff, who for seven years was president of the autonomous Soviet Republic of the Crimea, has been sentenced to be shot by order of the Soviet High Court, sitting in Simferopol, capital of the Crimea. He was charged with strangling, with his own hands, a witness of his criminal past in the Red Army—a partisan veteran peasant. This man, Cholak, was fully aware of Ibramoff’s long career as a bandit before he was elected President, and had seen his misdeeds while in office, including the organising of robbery and murder, and the embezzling of £4,000. It is stated that Ibraimoff invited Cholak to his flat, strangled him in the kitchen, and buried his body in a rubbish heap. His agents murdered another witness. The Crimean Vice-President, Mustapha, was also sentenced to death.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 349, 9 May 1928, Page 1
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