The Budapest Investigative Prosecutor's Office on Monday questioned Sándor Képíró as a war crime suspect relating to an incident in 1943.

Evidence indicates that a patrol led by Képíró on January 23, 1943, killed four civilians at Novi Sad, during a three-day spree in which Hungarian soldiers killed hundreds of civilians. Képíró, 95, denies the charge.

The prosecutor's request that Képíró be placed under house arrest was rejected by the Buda Central District Court.

Képíró fled to Argentina after he was convicted of war crimes by a Hungarian court in 1946. He returned to Hungary in 1996.

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