Croatia to Decide about Ilijasevic Soon
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In September this year Ilijasevic fled to Croatia from a prison in Bosnia and Herzegovina where he was serving his fifteen-year sentence for war crimes and murder.
The County Court in Zadar told BIRN Justice Report that the Municipal Court in Kiseljak had provided it with requested additional documents related to Ilijasevic and that it would render a decision on January 14.
Marina Bakic, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said earlier that the verdict had to be admitted in accordance with an agreement on the execution of court verdicts between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and that the sentence could not be longer than the one already pronounced.
In 2008 the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced Ilijasevic, a former member of “Maturice” Special Purposes Squad of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, to 14 years in prison for crimes against the local population in Vares and Kiseljak municipalities, including the murders committed in Stupni Do village.
One year later the Cantonal Court in Novi Travnik sentenced him to four-and-a-half years in prison for having committed murder in Kiseljak during the war. The Travnik Court pronounced a single sentence of 15 years in prison.
