A 91-year-old Lithunian man is not faking illness to avoid being tried on war crimes charges, the head of a Lithuanian medical panel said. The comment came after the U.S. government’s leading Nazi hunter, Eli Rosenbaum, charged that he has “specific, verified information” that Aleksandras Lileikis is fit to stand trial on charges of turning Jews over to Nazi death squads. Another medical panel ruled that another Lithuanian, Kazys Gimzauskas, is also too ill to be tried on similar charges.
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