§ 73. Mr. Barnesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will give details of the inquiries he has made of the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics regarding the detention of Mr. Nikolai Scharegin; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Goronwy RobertsIn response to inquiries which Her Majesty's Embassy in Moscow made on behalf of Mr. Scharegin's British wife and employers the Soviet authorities have said that Mr. Scharegin (whom they know by the name of Budalak) was arrested on the 20th of September and that his case is now under investigation. They have also said that he committed an offence in 1947 while serving with the Soviet forces in Hungary.