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Canada Refuses to Extradite Nazi Collaborator Hunka to Russia - MFA Source

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Canada has refused to extradite Yaroslav Hunka, the Ukrainian Nazi collaborator who received a standing ovation in the Canadian parliament in September, to Russia, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik on Tuesday.
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"Our request for extradition was formally rejected citing the absence of an extradition treaty between our countries," the source said.
The honoring of a Nazi collaborator sparked outcries from Russia, Poland and elsewhere.
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In October, Hunka was charged in absentia with the genocide of civilians during World War II by the Russian Investigative Committee. He is accused of participating in large-scale executions of at least 500 civilians in the Lvov region of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1943-1944.
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office told Sputnik in December that it had requested that Hunka be extradited to Russia to face criminal charges of genocide against Soviet citizens.
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