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A former special forces soldier is set to become the first former member of the Australian Defence Force to be charged with war crimes in Afghanistan.
Oliver Schulz, 41, was arrested on Monday morning by the Australian Federal Police in the NSW southern highlands.
Former special forces soldier Oliver Schulz was arrested in NSW on Monday.
The AFP said in a statement it will be alleged that Schulz murdered an Afghan man while deployed to Afghanistan with the Australian Defence Force.
Schulz, who was featured in a 2020 Four Corners story about alleged war crimes, is scheduled to appear at Queanbeyan Local Court on Tuesday morning.
Police said the arrest was the result of a joint investigation with the Office of the Special Investigator, which is investigating allegations arising from the Brereton Report into alleged war crimes committed by ADF personnel during the war in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016.
Schulz is expected to be charged with one count of War Crime—Murder, which has a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
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