Branimir Glavas has been served the Serbian indictment for war crimes committed in Croatia, representatives of the prison in Mostar, southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Glavas is serving a sentence, said on Tuesday.
The indictment was forwarded through the Bosnian Justice Ministry, the prison representatives added.
The Serbian High Court's war crimes council has indicted a number of Croatian military and political officials, including Glavas, Vladimir Seks, Ivan Vekic and Tomislav Mercep, for a war crime committed against 19 Serbs from the Vukovar area in eastern Croatia.
The Bosnian Justice Ministry said today the indictment which Glavas was served must first become valid, after which the procedure was up to the defendant or Serbia.
The accused can take a position on the indictment through our judicial bodies, the ministry's spokeswoman, Marina Bakic, told the media in Mostar.
Since Glavas holds Bosnian citizenship, he cannot be extradited and Serbia can refer the case to Bosnia and Herzegovina, she added.
She said, however, that the course of action was primarily up to the Serbian judiciary.
Glavas's Bosnian lawyer Nikica Grzic said earlier he did not think that Serbia would refer the case file to Bosnia so that a Bosnian court could try him for war crimes, since it had never done so.
Glavas is serving an eight-year prison sentence handed down by a Croatian court for war crimes committed against Serb civilians in Osijek in 1991.
