“Requests for legal assistance have been sent to the competent authorities of Germany, Canada, Latvia, Poland, the USA and Estonia.

On some of them, information of interest to the investigation was received, "RIA Novosti quotes the official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, Andrei Ivanov.

He added that other requests are being monitored for their implementation.

Earlier it became known that the former soldiers of Nazi Germany are being checked for involvement in the genocide of the peoples of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War.