The World - News from May 30, 1986
More than 100 Moscow food trade workers have been brought to trial since late 1983 on charges of embezzlement and of taking more than $1 million in bribes, the government newspaper Izvestia reported. Detailing a Soviet scandal that led to the 1984 execution of Yuri Sokolov, the head of Moscow’s best-known food store, for accepting almost $400,000 in bribes, the newspaper said that police are still investigating 30 other cases. Investigators were quoted as saying that corruption extended into the regional government, the state economic planning committee and the national Trade Ministry.
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