Forty-three persons have been arrested in Bucharest on the charge that they helped Rumanian Jews to secure exemptions from forced labor service, the Deutsche Tageszeitung reaching here today from Germany reports.
The Nazi paper says that among those arrested is a Rumanian official, Bela Satova, who is reported to have provided Jews with exemption certificates for payments ranging from 30,000 to 80,000 lei each.
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