Extradition for alleged Nazi criminal upheld

An alleged Nazi war criminal has failed to avoid extradition from Australia to Hungary on charges of murdering a Jewish teenager in 1944.

Charles Zentai, 87, appeared in the Federal Court in Perth yesterday to learn the outcome of his application for a review of a magistrate's ruling that he is eligible for surrender to Hungarian authorities.

Zentai had made the application on the basis that the charge against him did not constitute a war crime at the time of the murder.

Justice John Gilmour upheld the ruling of magistrate Barbara Lane, concluding the charge was a war crime and an extradition offence.