STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2026, sig. 109-7/33 Page 126 · 126 of 174
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2026, sig. 109-7/33
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- 2 - 109 192l in Prague with his frauds started and in the circle of his acquaintances under the premonition to operate a shop in Vienna with women's linen, lured out and embezzled altogether loo.ooo K. l922 he entrusted in Helsinki jewels of a Finnish adjective in the value of l4o.ooo Finnish mark. In 1922 he appeared in Bucharest as a military representative of the Soviet Union, on whose behalf he had to make the purchase of Uniformen in Romania. After a short time he disappeared from Romania after he stole from a ballet dancer around 3 brilliants. In the meantime until his arrest in Prague he drifted around in all the countries of Central Europe. He only owes it to him. the difficulties of the international extradition and legal assistance treaties, that he was not transferred to the ordinary courts before. Currently he plays the role of fencing teacher in Prague again. As such he opened a fencing school in Prague already in the year l937. Kotinsky was to be seen among the spectators on the occasion of the fencing tournament Berlin-Prague, which took place on the 14th of January 1940.