BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 18 (UPI) -- Laszlo Csatary, described by Nazi hunters as the world's most wanted living Nazi, has been arrested in Hungary, officials said.
The 95-year-old was arrested Tuesday and charged with war crimes for his alleged role in sending more than 15,000 Jews to Nazi death camps while he served as police chief in Nazi-occupied Kosice in spring 1944, The Jerusalem Post reported. Kosice, now part of Slovakia, was part of Hungary at the time.
Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center tracked down Csatary to a suburb of Budapest late last year.
"Hallelujah," Zuroff told the Post after the arrest. "You can't understand what this means to me. It's a great victory and a very important one."
Csatary immigrated to Canada after World War II but was stripped of his citizenship in 1995. He then returned to Hungary where he was born.
Zuroff said the passage of time "does not diminish the guilt of the killers."
"Don't look at Csatary when he is old and frail. Look at a man who when he was at the height of the his powers devoted them to killing people," Zuroff was quoted as saying.
