Former Croatian MP Branimir Glavas was transferred from a Sarajevo detention centre to a prison in Zenica, central Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Monday to serve an eight-year sentence for war crimes against civilians committed in Osijek, eastern Croatia.
The Zenica prison is the largest prison in Bosnia.
The Bosnian State Court last Friday ruled that Glavas be transferred to Zenica, after a sentence handed down against him by the Zagreb County Court became final.
The upholding of Glavas's conviction and his imprisonment is the first final case tried on the basis of a Croatian-Bosnian agreement on mutual assistance in criminal cases. The agreement prevents persons convicted in either country from evading serving prison sentences by abusing dual citizenship.
