RIGA - The trial of Latvian-Canadian Eduards Podins, currently underway in Vancouver after two weeks of hearings in Latvia last August, is finally nearing an end."We expect to have a decision by the end of January," said Terry Bitner of the War Crimes Section of the Canadian Justice Department.A decision originally was expected by the end of September.Podins is accused of working as a police guard at a concentration camp in Valmiera during the Nazi occupation of Latvia and then lying about it to get into Canada.Canadian law bars anyone who collaborated with the Nazis from immigrating to Can...
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