The 51-year-old Vasiljkovic, who holds Australian citizenship, was commander of Serb paramilitary forces in Croatia from 1991 to 1993. He is suspected of participation in war crimes against civilians, Croatian soldiers and prisoners of war.
The judiciary in Munich is also interested in Vasiljkovic's trial and hopes that it will open the case of German journalist Egon Scotland, 42, who is believed to have been killed by Vasiljkovic's soldiers, Dpa said.
Vasiljkovic was arrested in Sydney on January 20 on the basis of an international arrest warrant issued by Croatia. He has since appealed to the Australian Supreme Court claiming that he had been taken into custody unlawfully because the two countries did not have a formal agreement on extradition. The Supreme Court dismissed his appeal in June, accepting the Australian government's position that Vasiljkovic can be extradited on the basis of the Commonwealth agreement on extradition, and the case continued before the court in Sydney.
The County Prosecutor's Office in Sibenik charged Vasiljkovic with breaches of the Geneva Conventions. He is suspected of torturing and killing captive Croatian soldiers and police in Knin in June and July 1991, and in Bruska near Benkovac in February 1993.
He is also suspected of devising, in agreement with a Yugoslav People's Army tank unit commander, a plan to attack and seize the police station in Glina, its suburb of Jukinac, and the villages of Gornji Vidusevac and Donji Vidusevac. During the attack, civilian buildings were demolished, the population was forced to flee, their property was plundered, and civilians were killed and wounded, including a foreign reporter.