BUDAPEST, Hungary: Laszlo Csatary

Laszlo Csatary: BUDAPEST, Hungary - Laszlo Csatary, a former police officer who was stripped of his Canadian citizenship and indicted by Hungarian authorities for abusing Jews and contributing to their deportation to Nazi death camps, has died. He was 98. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Hungarian authorities claimed earlier this year that Csatary was the chief of an internment camp set up in a brick factory in 1944 for around 12,000 Jews in Kosice a Slovak city then part of Hungary. FILE This Wednesday, July 18, 2012 file photo shows alleged Hungarian war criminal Laszlo Csatary covering his face in a car as he leaves the Budapest Prosecutor's Office after he was questioned by detectives on charges of war crimes during WWII and prosecutors ordered his house arrest in Budapest, Hungary. Csatary, a former police officer indicted in June 2013 by Hungarian authorities for abusing Jews and contributing to their deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died. He was 98. Csatary died Saturday Aug. 11, 2013 of pneumonia in a Budapest hospital, said his lawyer, Gabor Horvath B. AP Photo/MTI, Bea Kallos, File Csatary, who lived for years in Montreal, died Saturday of pneumonia in a Budapest hospital, said his lawyer, Gabor Horvath B. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.