TALLINN - The Nazi-huntingSimonWiesenthalCenter has again listed Estonian-born Venezuelan millionaire Harry Mannil and Mikhail Gorshkow, a resident of Estonia, among its 10 most-wanted war criminals.

Gorshkow is ranked in eighth place and Mannil in tenth place.

The Los Angeles-based SimonWiesenthalCenter claims that Mannil arrested Jews and communists who were later executed by the Nazis while serving in Estonia's political police force during the Nazi occupation.

The Estonian security police and the Public Prosecutor's Office in late 2005 ended a five-year investigation into Mannil's war-era activities, finding no proof of his involvement in crimes against humanity. The investigation confirmed that Mannil was a member of the Nazi occupation era political police and participated in the questioning of Jews.

Gorshkow is alleged to have been an interrogator for the Nazi Gestapo and helping kill about 3,000 men, women and children in the Slutsk ghetto in Minsk, Belarus.

Gorshkow became a US citizen in 1953 but was denaturalized in 2002 and is under investigation in Estonia.

The list is topped by Alois Brunner, accused to deporting Hungarian and Greek Jews to death camps, Dr. Aribert Heim, a doctor with Hitler's SS who is accused of killing hundreds at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.

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