Croatia's national police director Oliver Grbic and his Serbian counterpart Milorad Veljovic on Monday agreed on establishing a joint team of investigators to collect information about the 1994 death of Serbian journalist Radislava Vujasinovic and possible implication of Dragan Paravinja in the case, as speculated by the media.
Following talks between Grbic and Veljovic in the northern Croatian Adriatic seaport of Rijeka, the Croatian interior ministry issued a statement saying that a request would be made to question Paravinja about the case of the deceased reporter. Paravinja is currently in investigative custody in Sibenik on suspicion that he abducted and killed the underage girl Antonia Bilic.
The media speculate that Paravinja may have been implicated in the murder of Radislava Vujasinovic, who wrote about links between Serbian politicians and underworld figures for the Serbian Duga weekly in the early 1990s.
Recently Paravinja was temporarily extradited from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Croatia where he is suspected of the Bilic murder two months ago and of an attempted sexual assault in Omis last year. Bosnia has already sentenced Paravinja to two years and ten months for rape pending appeal. His extradition has also been requested by Serbia, where he was convicted for rape and sentenced to four and a half years, but he fled the country after the announcement of the judgement.
During the talks in Rijeka, Grbic and Veljovic also discussed other issues pertaining to the cooperation between the Croatian and Serbian police forces, the Croatian ministry reported.
