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Ben Roberts-Smith has been arrested, reportedly
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Ben Roberts-Smith arrested after investigation into alleged war crimes
Australia’s most decorated former soldier has been arrested over investigations into alleged war crimes.
Former Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has been arrested following investigations into alleged war crimes.
The 47-year-old was arrested at Sydney Airport on Tuesday.
The Australian Federal Police and the Office of the Special Investigator is due to address the media on Tuesday afternoon.
The arrest comes after Mr Roberts-Smith unsuccessfully sued Nine Newspapers over a series of stories about war crime allegations relating to his deployment in Afghanistan.
Federal Court Justice Anthony Besanko in 2023 found, on the balance of probabilities, that Mr Roberts-Smith was involved in the murder of four unarmed men, ruling against him in his defamation suit against The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Canberra Times.
The findings were made on the balance of probabilities, which is less than the criminal standard of beyond reasonable doubt.
Mr Roberts-Smith’s appeal to the Full Court of the Federal Court was dismissed last year, and he was refused leave to appeal by the High Court