Speaking at a commemoration for the victims of the 1942 Nazi occupation in Novi Sad, Zuroff mentioned Sandor Kepir, a Hungarian police officer born in 1914, who took part in a 1942 raid in Novi Sad, when 1,400 Serbs, Jews and Roma were thrown into a frozen Danube river, as well as in the deportation of Serbian Jews to Auschwitz at the end of the war. He also mentioned Ustasha criminals Milivoj Asner and Ivo Rojnica, who organised the deportation of Serbs, Jews and Roma to the Ustasha-run camp of Jasenovac and executions in the area of Dubrovnik.
Serbian authorities are not taking any concrete action to file a request for the extradition of the three Nazi criminals responsible for the suffering of Serbs, Jews and Roma, Zuroff said at the meeting.
At the end of WWII, Sandor Kepir first fled to Austria and then to Argentina, after which he returned to Hungary. He now lives there at an unknown address, and a request for his extradition from the Serbian authorities would force the Hungarian authorities to speed up his trial, considering attempts in Hungary to downplay the country's cooperation with the Nazi Germany and to emphasise communist crimes, Zuroff said.
Zuroff also criticised Austria, which he called a 'heaven for Nazis', for trying to avoid the extradition to Asner despite the fact that he was not its citizen and that Croatia had requested his extradition. As for Rojnica, Zuroff said that his extradition had not been requested, although Argentina was willing to hand him over.
Zuroff said that the cases of Kepir, Asner and Rojnica were part of the "Last Chance" operation of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, in the course of which information on 458 Nazi suspects living in different countries has been collected so far.