RIGA, Jul 23, BNS - The Latvian investigative office for crimes of
totalitarian regimes will be checking on information recently received by
the Simon Wiesenthal Center of ten people that may have participated in
crimes of the Holocaust during World War II, as personnel of the Latvian
Security Police.
The Latvian Prosecutor General's office reported that it has been looking
into the cases for the past month. Some of the information gathered by the
Simon Wiesenthal Center partially coincides with the information available
to the prosecutors' office on people that may have taken part in the
Holocaust.
Chief prosecutor Janis Osis said
that a thorough check on the information
will last at least another month and only then may any possible criminal
proceedings take place.
On Tuesday the Simon Wiesenthal Center
announced that in the past year
since advertising a 10,000 USD reward campaign for news that may lead to
the detaining of WWII Nazi criminals, the center in Latvia has received
reports of 38 people that may have taken part in the holocaust as members
of the Latvian Security Police.
An announcement made by Efraim Zuroff
of the center's Jerusalem office
states that news of ten suspects has been handed over to the Latvian
Prosecutor General head prosecutor Janis Osis and the center hopes that
criminal investigation may be launched towards at least some of the
suspects. Four of the suspects live abroad in Canada, the US and Sweden.
"We hope that Latvian
governing institutions will manage to put to trial
as many suspects as possible for justice to prevail in these cases once
and for all," stated Zuroff on Tuesday.
Wiesenthal Center reward campaign
in Latvia results in reports of 38
suspected Nazi criminals in past year
16:46, 22 jūlijs 2003
RIGA, Jul 22, BNS - The Simon Wiesenthal
Center announced on Tuesday that
in the past year since advertising a 10,000 USD reward campaign for news
that may lead to the detaining of WWII Nazi criminals, the center in
latvia has received reports of 38 people that may have taken part in the
holocaust as members of the latvian Security Police.
An announcement made by Efraim Zuroff of the center's Jerusalem office
states that news of ten suspects has been handed over to the Latvian
Prosecutor General head prosecutor Janis Osis and the center hopes that
criminal investigation may be launched towards at least some of the
suspects. Four of the suspects live abroad in Canada, the US and Sweden."We hope that Latvian governing institutions will manage to put to
trial
as many suspects as possible for justice to prevail in these cases once
and for all."
Zuroff
has also urged any more information that people may have of NAzi
war criminals to be handed in to the center. He added that no rewards have
yet been paid, but that if any of the suspects healthy enough are put to
trial, then the informants will be rewarded.
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