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<text id=91TT0602>
<title>
Mar. 25, 1991: World Notes:Austria
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Mar. 25, 1991 Boris Yeltsin:Russia's Maverick
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 45
World Notes
AUSTRIA
Guilty as Charged
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<p> The crime was one of the most spectacular--and most
tangled--in postwar Austrian history. It riveted the
attention of the public for 14 years. Last week, after a trial
that lasted 13 months, the saga of the ill-fated freighter
Lucona finally came to an end when Udo Proksch was convicted
of murder and fraud and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
</p>
<p> Proksch, 56, the owner of Demel, the famous Vienna pastry
shop, had been accused of engineering a bold scheme in which
he loaded the 12,000-ton Panama-registered Lucona with scrap
metal, insured the cargo for $18.5 million as "nuclear
processing equipment," then had the ship blown up after it set
sail from Italy. Six people died when the vessel sank off the
Maldive Islands in January 1977.
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<p> The fraud was uncovered when a high-tech deep-sea search
found the scrap metal and concluded that the Lucona had been
deliberately scuttled. Two former government ministers were
forced to resign after being accused of involvement in the
scandal. Proksch plans to appeal.
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