Chazkal Bondarenko, Nahum Skulsky and M. Rabinovitch, Jewish officials in the tax collecting department in Berditchev, Ukraine, were today sentenced to death, and ten other officials to varying terms of imprisonment for having illegally confiscated money and jewelry belonging to Jews. The sums they received in this fashion they spent, the state prosecutor declared.
At the same time Soviet courts sent a number of Jews to jail for making false income returns.
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