The decisions to provide for the detention of Glavas were made with a majority vote, with only Vlado Jukic of the Party of Rights voting against, Commission chairman Damir Sesvecan told the press after a three-hour closed-door session.
The Commission considered the Zagreb County Court's request for Glavas's detention on Monday but refused to decide on it, with the explanation that the court's investigating judge, Zdenko Posavec, had breached procedure because he had decided to remand Glavas in custody before requesting the Commission's approval that he be stripped of immunity.
Posavec yesterday filed an identical request, claiming he had not breached procedure.
Commenting on the fact that the Commission today granted a request which it had refused on Monday claiming it was against procedure, Sesvecan said the Commission had acted correctly at both sessions.
"On Monday we acted in line with parliamentary Rules of Procedure, but today, for the purpose of the proceedings and due to dilemmas in the interpretation of the Constitution, the Rules of Procedure, and the Law on Criminal Procedure, which were voiced by legal experts as well, we decided to grant both requests," said Sesvecan.
He declined to answer if this meant the Credentials and Privileges Commission broke the Rules of Procedure today and with how many votes the decisions on approving detention were made.
Parliament is expected to confirm the Commission's decisions at the next plenary session, but this does not stay detention, which means that Glavas may be arrested in Zagreb as early as today.
The investigation against Glavas is being conducted before the Zagreb County Court on suspicion that he committed war crimes against Serb civilians in the eastern city of Osijek in 1991. This case is also known as the Garage Case or as the Glavas and Fehir Case.