From The Australian:

Accused Nazi war criminal wins extradition delay
Paige Taylor
September 26, 2007

ACCUSED Nazi-era war criminal Charles Zentai has won another round in the long-running fight to have him extradited for allegedly murdering a teenage Jew.

The 85-year-old has so far spent almost half his life savings - about $50,000 - attempting to avoid extradition for allegedly taking part in the murder of a teenage Jew in the last months of World War II, his children have told The Australian.

A Perth magistrate yesterday put off until February a decision on his extradition hearing date, pending the result of Mr Zentai’s High Court challenge to the process that has dragged on since his arrest by Australian Federal Police on July 8, 2005.

Taking into account that Mr Zentai had been given special leave on September 13 to appeal his extradition, magistrate Steven Heath adjourned the matter until February 12.

The decision pleased the retired mental health nurse and his children, who are determined to ensure he is not sent to Budapest to face trial. They say he is suffering from myriad health problems and would not survive extradition.

Mr Zentai is wanted in Hungary for the fatal beating of 18-year-old Peter Balazs in the last months of World War II, when lawlessness prospered on the streets of Budapest under the Nazi-backed Arrow Cross.

Mr Zentai was a 23-year-old warrant officer in the Hitler-aligned Hungarian army when he is alleged to have snatched Balazs from a tram on November 8, 1944, taken him to the Arena Utza barracks and participated in his fatal beating and the dumping of his body in the Danube.

He denies knowing Balazs or having any involvement in his death and says he left Budapest with his army unit for Hunta on November 7, 1944, the day before the murder.

He has said he did know the two men convicted after the war for their part in Balazs’s fatal beating, Bela Mader and Lajos Nagy, and says they arrived in Hunta by bus two days after him.