Suspected Nazi war criminal Mr Anton Gecas died today in hospital.
The 85-year-old Mr Gecas died in Edinburgh just over a week after it was announced a warrant for his arrest would not be executed due to his ill health, preventing his extradition.
Mr Gecas had suffered two strokes and had been recovering in Liberton Hospital in the Scottish capital.
His death came six months after the Lithuanian government asked the Scottish authorities to extradite him.
That request was made in March, and in July this year a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Last week, the Scottish Executive's Justice Department said an independent medical examination had shown he was not fit and the warrant would not be served on him.
The extradition request was in connection with genocide and war crimes in Lithuania and Byelorussia, now Belarus, during the Second World War.
Mr Gecas served as a platoon commander in a police battalion which fought with the Germans after they invaded Lithuania. He moved to Scotland in 1947, living in Edinburgh.
A former National Coal Board engineer, he repeatedly denied committing war crimes.
However in 1992, Mr Gecas lost a defamation case against Scottish Television, which claimed he led atrocities against Jews in his native country and Belarus as the head of a special police battalion during the war.
PA