Paravinja's questioning was conducted by two high-ranking Croatian police officials after Bosnia granted a request for the additional interrogation of that man temporarily extradited from Sarajevo to Sibenik for the Bilic case investigation.

After today's questioning at the Sibenik County Court, Paravinja's court-appointed lawyer Branko Baica said that his client had immediately stated that he had not killed the journalist and that he did not know who had murdered that reporter who used to write about links between Serbian politicians and underworld figures in early 1990s.

According to the lawyer, investigators were interested in Paravinja's knowledge about connections between the death of his cousin who collaborated with reporter Vujasinovic on topics such as war crimes committed by Serbian mobster Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan in eastern Croatia with the death of Vujasnovic who was found dead in her Belgrade flat on 8 April 1994.

Shortly after she wrote texts on those topics, Vujasinovic was murdered and soon after that Paravinja's cousin was also found dead.

The lawyer said that Paravinja believed that those two murders were connected.

He added that his client was satisfied with today's questioning.

After the media published speculations about possibilities of Paravinja having some knowledge about the Serbian reporter's death, the police directors of Croatia and Serbia last Monday agreed on his additional questioning.

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.

The investigative hearings for the Bilic case resume on Friday before the Sibenik court.