A police car and two vans arrived at the airport after the landing of the plane, and it is believed that Gudelj was transported to a prison in Osijek, where he will await a retrial before the Osijek County Court.
Gudelj was arrested in Sydney in September 2006 based on an extradition warrant issued by Croatian authorities.
Gudelj was sentenced in 1994 to 20 years in prison for triple murder and an attempted murder. The trial court found that he fired 30 bullets from his Kalashnikov machine-gun at a car carrying the Osijek police chief to negotiations on the normalisation of relations with rebel Serbs. Gudelj was sentenced in absentia because he fled the country shortly after the murders.
He was arrested by German police and extradited to Croatia in 1996. The Croatian Supreme Court then quashed the trial verdict and returned the case to the Osijek County Court. However, in May 1997, the Supreme Court suspended the proceedings and granted Gudelj amnesty in line with the General Amnesty Act. After he was released, he left the country for Australia.
In March 2001, the Constitutional Court quashed the ruling granting Gudelj a pardon and returned the case to the Osijek County Court for a retrial.