"Last week we received the Macedonian Justice Ministry's request and we immediately sent it to the Office of the State Prosecutor which should decide whether it will take over the proceedings against Boskovski," the Justice Ministry's spokeswoman Vesna Dovranic told Hina on Monday.
The Office of the State Prosecutor will make a decision on the basis of evidence which prosecutors in Macedonia have gathered so far.
After the Macedonian parliament stripped Boskovski of his immunity as an MP in early May this year, an international warrant for his arrest was issued. The Croatian police said then that they could not not arrest him due to his Croatian citizenship and legal procedure which stipulates that no Croatian citizen could be apprehended on the basis of an international arrest warrant unless the country which issues the warrant hands over the case to Croatia.
Boskovski was granted Croatian citizenship in 1993 as his wife was a Croatian national and he had lived in Croatia over 20 years.
After Macedonia issued the warrant for his arrest, Boskovski said that he was a victim of a politically motivated campaign. He said he was not in hiding and that he would insist that Croatia help him in this case and that he would return to Macedonia to prove his innocence.
According to reports of the Macedonian Interior Ministry based on a statement given by an interrogated person, Boskovski is suspected of organising the killing of seven Asians who were in transit through Macedonia trying to immigrate in Europe for economic reasons. However, at the time when they were killed, the murdered Pakistanis and Indian were presented as members of a terrorist group which planned attacks on foreign embassies in Skopje.
Later some suspicions were raised that the entire operation of their elimination was carried out only to promote Macedonia as an active participant in the war on terrorism.
Boskovski said that was not true and that he had tapes of conversations which testified that the Asians had been preparing attacks on the embassies.
Boskovski is still only a suspect in the Rastanska Lozja case. The Skopje municipal court has issued indictments against two special police officers, their commander and one businessman accusing them of being involved in this case. They have been detained in custody for four months. They also claim that they are innocent.
Shortly after the seven men's killing near Skopje, the Macedonian embassy in Pakistan was attacked and three persons died in that assault. According to the Macedonian media, the attackers have been recently found guilty and sentenced to 10 or more years in prison.