Imre Finta (2 September 1912 – 1 December 2003)[1][2] was the first person prosecuted under Canada's war crimes legislation.
He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie on January 1, 1939, and was promoted to the rank of captain on April 5, 1942.
Finta was accused of committing manslaughter, kidnapping, unlawful confinement and robbery in relation to his alleged activities as a police officer assisting the Nazis in the forced deportation of 8,617 Jews from Szeged during the Holocaust.
[5][6] Finta was defended by lawyers Doug Christie and Barbara Kulaszka[7] and was supported by far-right figures such as Ernst Zündel.
"[3] The decision brought to an end of prosecutions under Canada's nascent war crimes legislation.