The extradition hearing of Adrija Artukovic, former Minister of Interior in the Croat puppet government, will resume Tuesday. The defense and attorney for Artukovic will argue the admissibility of documentary evidence meant to buttress the Yugoslav Government’s contention that Artukovic was responsible for the murder of Jews, Serbs and other members of minority groups during the Nazi occupation of the country.
The hearing, held before United States Commissioner Theodore Hocke, began June 16 and has already been under way for three weeks. Most of the oral testimony in Artukovic’s behalf was by six Yugoslavs now living in the United States, several of them Catholic priests and others former officials in the same Nazi Croat government in which Artukovic served. The chief witness for the Belgrade Government was Kerlo Carin, deputy attorney general of Croatia, who testified that under the Yugoslav criminal code Artukovic’s alleged crimes were extraditable.
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