According to a report in the Sarajevo-based Dnevni Avaz daily, the motion for the execution of Bender's prison sentence was forwarded from Sarajevo after Bender exhausted all possibilities for appeals.
In 2006, the municipal court in the southern town of Capljina sentenced Bender, former high-ranking Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) official and Bosnian federal pension agency director, to four and a half years for the unlawful sale of the Mostar-based Ero Hotel to a private company.
As soon as the verdict was made, Bender left his hometown of Neum, southernmost Bosnia-Herzegovina, for Zagreb.
An agreement which the two countries' justice ministers -- Ivan Simonovic of Croatia and Barisa Colak of Bosnia -- signed this February on the mutual enforcement of judicial decisions in criminal matters made it possible for Bosnia to send the above-mentioned request to the Croatian judiciary.
The Zagreb County Court is expected to confirm the Bender ruling and send him to prison.
Bosnia has so far forwarded a score of requests for the execution of final rulings given to people with dual citizenship.