It is expected to win approval and take effect by year's end. Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff , director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, welcomed the agreement but said it needs to be used without delay to bring the elderly Kalejs to court. Kalejs was deported from the United States and Canada in the 1990s for lying about his Nazi past. Earlier this year, he fled to Australia after Nazi hunters tracked him to a retirement home in England. Both Australia and Latvia have come under heavy pressure to ensure that Kalejs is finally charged and extradited for trial.
Critics say both nations have acted too slowly.