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Protests over get-rich-quick ban

Friday 04 March 1994 00:02 GMT
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Romanian riot police intervened to restore traffic in Bucharest as angry crowds protested against a crackdown by authorities on money-spinning pyramid investment schemes, Reuter reports from Bucharest.

Hundreds of protesters blocked traffic in a working-class district for four hours, a day after the prefect banned pyramid investment funds in the city and its surroundings.

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