The East Sarajevo District Court has requested that Dragan Paravinja be returned from Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina so that the court of second instance could deliver a verdict on the indictment accusing him of rape committed in the Jahorina area in 2002, court officials told Hina on Wednesday.
"The Court, through the Bosnian Justice Ministry, launched the proceedings aimed at Paravinja extradition from Croatia," court official Branka Ceric said.
Ceric also said that the extradition request had been filed because the court scheduled a hearing for 22 December to discuss appeals by the defence and the prosecution to the verdict delivered by a court of first instance in Sokoc which sentenced Paravinja to 34 month in prison.
Seven days after the verdict was handed down, Bosnia's judicial authorities temporarily extradited Paravinja to Croatia so that investigation into the disappearance of Antonia Bilic from Drnis could be completed.
After a several month-long investigation the Sibenik County Prosecutor's Office has indicted Paravinja for murder and two attempted rapes.
The Sibenik County Court has extended detention by 60 days for 43-year-old truck driver Dragan Paravinja, suspected of the murder and attempted rape of 17-year-old Bilic and the attempted rape of a 25-year-old hitchhiker.
Paravinja is also wanted in Serbia where he was convicted to four and a half years in prison for rape and attempted rape, without the right to appeal.
