Croatian authorities will extradite Dragan Paravinja to Bosnia and Herzegovina next week so that the district court in east Sarajevo can rule on appeals lodged to a trial court verdict sentencing him to two and a half years' imprisonment for rape, Bosnian media said on Saturday.
Paravinja is in custody in Croatia, accused of raping and killing Antonia Bilic, a girl from Drnis.
According to the prosecutor in east Sarajevo, Paravinja will attend on December 22 a hearing at which the district court will rule on appeals filed by the prosecutor and the defence to the verdict finding him guilty of raping a women in Pale in 2002. The prosecutor asked for a harsher sentence and the defence for an acquittal.
The prosecutor was unable to say whether Paravinja would be extradited back to Croatia after the hearing.
The county prosecutor in Sibenik, Croatia, has indicted Paravinja for first degree murder and two attempted rapes. The murder and one attempted rape victim is Bilic, who went missing on June 7, after entering Paravinja's truck.
Serbia has issued a warrant for Paravinja's arrest over a rape and an attempted rape for which he has been convicted to four years and five months' imprisonment.
