RIGA - A Canadian-Latvian retirement home operator, accused of lying to immigration officials about his cooperation with the Nazis in Latvia during the Second World War, has won a two-year court battle for the right to remain in Canada.The Canadian Justice Department said Eduards Podins, 81, voluntarily worked as a guard at a concentration camp in Valmiera between 1941 and 1943.Canadian law denies citizenship and the right to immigrate to collaborators who worked in Nazi concentration camps. If found guilty, Podins would have been stripped of his citizenship and asked to leave the country h...
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