Munich, Germany – Prosecutors say they have opened an investigation into a former U.S. Secret Service forensics expert who testified at the John Demjanjuk trial after the defense accused him of perjury.
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Trial prosecutor Hans-Joachim Lutz told The Associated Press on Thursday that his office opened the investigation after receiving a complaint against former agent Larry Stewart, who gave testimony to the veracity of a Nazi-issued identity card that prosecutors say helps prove Demjanjuk was at the Sobibor death camp.
The defense says the card is a fake and that Stewart’s statements in Munich contradicted his earlier testimony.
Demjanjuk is a former Ohio autoworker being tried on 28,060 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he was a guard at the Nazi’s Sobibor death camp.