A band of swindlers who made money by counterfeiting passports of Polish Jews who have relatives in America and then drawing funds on the local banks, was discovered here when the swindlers made an attempt to impose on the office of the Hias.
Two arrests have so far been made. Both of the arrested men, Joseph Lozebnick and Loterstein, have long criminal records, according to the Warsaw police, and have succeeded in swindling hundred of American Jews whose relatives in Poland desire to emigrate to America.
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