A Moscow Jew arrested early in 1962 on a charge of having been “in touch with Israeli diplomats” was convicted in a Moscow court yesterday for alleged complicity in “economic crimes,” and the prosecution demanded that he be sentenced to death, according to highly authentic information from the Soviet capital received here today.
The man was listed as Mr. Greenberg, without a first name. He is known to have been a member of the Central Synagogue of Moscow. During the more than two years since his arrest, the charge against him had been changed from a political offense to a criminal category.
Mr. Greenberg, and others tried with him in a mass “economic” trial are scheduled to receive their sentences in Moscow tomorrow. In the trial, where Mr. Greenberg was the principal defendant, a number of other Soviet citizens, the majority of them Jews, were also found guilty.
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