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Deportation
For Lithuanian
New York (JTA) —A federal ap-
peals court in Philadelphia has
upheld a ruling that Jonas
Stelmokas entered the United
States illegally by concealing his
involvement in a Nazi-sponsored
Lithuanian battalion during
World War II.
The ruling affirms the 1995 re-
vocation of Mr. Stelmokas' U.S.
citizenship and places him one
step closer to deportation, said Eli
Rosenbaum, director of the Office
of Special Investigations, the
Nazi-hunting arm of the U.S. Jus-
tice Department.
"We've gotten over another
hurdle," Mr. Rosenbaum said in
an interview.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the 3rd Circuit, which is based in
Philadelphia, last week upheld in
a 2-1 decision a U.S. District
Court ruling to strip Mr.
Stelmokas of his American citi-
zenship.
Mr. Stelmokas has two more
opportunities to appeal, Mr.
Rosenbaum added.
The appeals court upheld Nov.
12 that Mr. Stelmokas, 80, a re-
tired architect in Lansdowne, Pa.,
hid his wartime past when he
came to the United States as a
refugee in 1949. He was made a
naturalized citizen in 1955.
According to the court, Mr.
Stelmokas voluntarily joined a
Nazi-sponsored battalion that as-
sisted in rounding up and killing
Jews in Lithuania. He served as
an officer in the battalion, known
as the Schutzmannschaft. The
group's members swore alle-
giance to Adolf Hitler and were
under control of German Ein-
satzgruppe A, a mobile killing
unit.
The appeals court also upheld
the finding that Mr. Stelmokas
was on duty when his entire bat-
talion took part in the so-called
Grosse Aktion, or Great Action,
in which Nazi documents record
that more than 9,000 Jews in the
Kaunas ghetto were methodical-
ly killed in a 24-hour period.
Study Links
Protein, Diabetes
New York (JTA) — Leptin, the
protein that made headlines two
years ago when it was found to
reduce obesity in mice, may be a
cause of adult-onset diabetes in
humans, according to a new
Weizmann Institute of Science
study.
The institute, based in
Rehovot, Israel, found that high
levels of leptin disrupt some of
the activities of insulin, the hor-
mone that controls blood sugar
levels.
The research also suggests that
if leptin is developed into a
weight-loss drug in the future,
it should be used with caution be-
cause it may cause the user to de- ,
velop diabetes-related symptoms.
Moscow Lawyer
Aided In Theft
St. Petersburg, Russia (JTA) —
A Moscow attorney will go to
prison for aiding in the 1994 theft
of millions of dollars of Hebrew,L,
Chinese and Arab manuscripts
from the Russian National Li-
brary.
Dmitry Yakubovsky, 33, was
sentenced to five years in prison
and stripped of his property on
charges of complicity in the theft
of objects of national value. The
heist allegedly was organized by
an international criminal orga-
nization spanning Israel, Switzer-
land and Russia.
The 89 manuscripts, whose
value has been estimated at
between $250 million and
$700 million, were to be sent to
Israel and sold, the prosecution
charged.
Defense attorneys vowed to
take the case to the Russian
Supreme Court.
'We don't believe he is guilty
on any of the charges," said de-
fense team leader Genrikh Pad-
va. "We will appeal this to the
end."
Arrested in January 1995, Mr.
Yakubovsky has been held in St.
Petersburg's notorious Kresty
Prison throughout the investiga-
tion and trial, which began this
spring.
According to testimony pre-
sented at the trial, Mr.
Yakubovsky was to arrange for
the transfer of the manuscripts,
some of them 1,300 years old, to
Israel. His precise role in the ac-
tual theft, however, was never
clear.
Police first discovered the theft
in December, after which a series
of arrests in Moscow, Israel and
St. Petersburg led them to Mr.
Yakubovsky.
The manuscripts were then
discovered in a St. Petersburg
apartment.
Mr. Yakubovsky first rose to
national prominence just before
the withdrawal of Russian troops
from Germany, when he was
tapped to lead investigations into
corruption among army officers.
The effort gained him the nick-
name "General Dima."
Russian President Boris
Yeltsin later used him to gather
information on political rivals, in-
cluding then-Vice President
Alexander Rutskoi, who led the
ill-fated blockade of the Russian
Parliament building in October
1994.
Known as a jet-setter, Mr.
Yakubovsky frequently traveled
to Israel and Canada, where his
wife, Marina Krasner, lives with
their three children.