English Translation

- 3 - 113 relies on his title of nobility and his high rank in the former Russian army in the full confidence of the members of the former Družina who were present in Prague. Already in 192l, he misuses his position of trust in order to draw out, independently of each other, amounts of K 4o.ooo to the Lieutenant-Colonel Georg K o s i n a and Lt-Col. Š i n d e l a ř, under the supervision of various business transactions. He pointed out that he urgently needed the money to buy women's linen and etamine, which he wanted to do in Vienna for the establishment of a fashion store. At about the same time he appeared one day in the arms shop L o v ě na in Prague and bought a valuable hunting rifle in the price of K 5.5oo, - which he wanted for a hunt to which General H u s ák invited him. A payment of the rifle was never made. After these frauds he disappeared from Prague. In the year l92l the Paris police issued an arrest warrant against Kotinsky because he had betrayed the Czech tailor, J. H. á n a k, in Paris around Zoo.ooo fr.. In spring 1922 Kotinski appeared in Finland. There he succeeds, the Finnish nobleman Lina Freifrau of A f t h a n a brilliant jewelry in the value of l4o.ooo finn.Mark (1 fin.Mark - 95 k - RM 9,5o) under the slogan, to have found a favorable purchase offer, to lure out and to embezzlement. l922 he begins his cheating in Bucharest. There he initially undercut the ballet master Marie S z y n g l o w s k a 1 o'clock and 1 muff and then the dancer Luisa H u v e n a bril- lantschmuck in the value of 5oo.ooo Lei. This time he succeeded in arresting him. On the 4th of January he was sentenced by the Bucharest Criminal Court to 4 months in prison; however, it never happened to be served because he had fled Romania in the meantime.