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Kabul: An ex-Australian SAS soldier who served in Afghanistan has been arrested and charged with a war crime.
Oliver Schulz was arrested on Monday morning by Australian Federal Police officers and had his case mentioned in Queanbeyan Local Court on Monday afternoon.
The AFP and the Office of the Special Investigator (OSI) said in a joint statement the 41-year-old had been charged with one count of war crime – murder, which carries a penalty of life imprisonment.
It will be alleged the former Special Forces soldier murdered an Afghan man while deployed to the country with the Australian Defence Force.
The AFP and OSI said they were working to investigate allegations of criminal offences under Australian law related to breaches of the Laws of Armed Conflict by Australian Defence Force personnel in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016.
The inquiry was launched in 2016 to look into allegations relating to possible breaches of the law by members of the Special Operations Task Group in Afghanistan.
