Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff on Monday blamed Hungary's "lack of political will" to either bring a WWII criminal to justice or extradite him to those who would be ready to call him to account of his crimes. The Budapest investigators for the prosecution carry on an investigation, the public prosecutors' spokesperson said.

Zuroff, the Jerusalem office chief of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, spoke in Serbia's northern Vojvodina province on the occasion of receiving an honorary citizen title in the province's capital Novi Sad.

The Nazi-hunter said nowadays there's no fear that the Holocaust will be forgotten, but the accountability of those who committed the crimes becomes increasingly difficult. Its major reason is the lack of political will, he added.

Zuroff called the case of Sandor Kepiro the best example. Kepiro was an officer of the Hungarian occupation troops in Novi Sad in 1942 which evidently committed a mass murder against the town's innocent Jews, Gypsies and Serbs, he said.

According to the Wiesenthal Centre, Kepiro, now 94, is directly responsible for the killing of at least 42 people, among them 11 minors, and two years later he was an active participant of the deportation of Jews to German death camps.

Kepiro now freely lives in Budapest, and there is no political will to call him to account for his crimes, and without political will there's no justice, Zuroff said.

An investigation is underway to determine whether Kepiro had participated in massacre, Gabriella Skoda, spokesperson for the Chief Prosecutor told MTI.

The investigation is against unknown perpetrator, and witnesses have already been heard. The Hungarian authorities have already requested legal aid from Serbia, and are currently expecting papers from the Belgrade archives, she said.

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