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Efraim Zuroff, who heads the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem, shows a picture of Aribert Heim.
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JERUSALEM (AFP)---The Simon Wiesenthal Centre accused a German judge on Monday of blocking the search for the world's most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect, Aribert Heim, also known as Dr. Death.
"Judge Hans-Richard Neerforth, who is in charge of the case at the Baden Baden court systematically obstructs all investigations that would enable German police to track down Doctor Aribert Heim," said Efraim Zuroff, who heads the Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem.
"For some reason, Judge Neerforth has opposed several means of verification, as for example tapping the telephone of this criminal's ex-wife," he told AFP.
"A bank account of this criminal has been found and his family is not touching it, which would suggest its owner is still alive," Zuroff charged.
Aribert Heim is the most wanted Nazi in the world. He has just celebrated his 94th birthday.
"He is a sadist, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of inmates he injected with poison in Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen," he added, referring to three notorious concentration camps where Heim is suspected of carrying out deadly medical experiments on prisoners.
There was no immediate reaction from the German judge.
