A district court on the island of Corfu adjourned the hearing for 8 November, Petrac's lawyer, Ljubo Pavkovic Viskovic said, adding that the hearing began today but lasted about 10 minutes after which it was postponed for procedural reasons.
Pavasovic Viskovic told Hina on the phone that the defence team had also intended to request political asylum in Greece for their client at today's hearing.
He went on to say that the Greek court decided to postpone the hearing, requesting Croatia to send additional material before it could decide on Petrac's transfer to Croatia.
The required documents pertain to a trial which the Zagreb County Court led against Petrac, sentencing him in absence to six years' imprisonment for the abduction of a teenage son of a former business partner.
Defence lawyers have already announced that they will try to contest Croatia's extradition request and prove that their client's prosecution was politically motivated.
Petrac will wait for the new hearing in an extradition prison in which he has been since his arrest by the Greek police in late August. Petrac was sentenced to five months in prison by a court in the Greek port city of Igoumenitsa for possessing a fake passport and illegally entering Greece.
Petrac was arrested on an international warrant in the Greek seaport after about a year and a half on the run.
Lawyer Pavasovic Viskovic said that investigators of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) had not yet interviewed his client. Petrac is seen as a very important link in a network of supporters of fugitive Croatian army general Ante Gotovina, who is wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.