An investigating judge with the Istria County Court in Pula, Ivica Stanic, today ordered that Boskovski be remanded in custody for 30 days and that an investigation be launched into the case.
Boskovski was arrested in Bale near Rovinj on Tuesday on suspicion of ordering the killing of seven illegal immigrants from Pakistan and India in 2002.
Boskovski, who has dual Macedonian and Croatian citizenship, was arrested after the Macedonian judiciary allowed Croatia to initiate criminal prosecution against him.
The case is rigged and the Croatian judiciary will establish this very soon, Tortevski told Vest and Vreme papers.
Tortevski was defence counsel for the second indictee in the killing of the immigrants, Goran Stojkov, commander of the disbanded special operations unit "Lavovi", who is also charged with embezzlement committed during the 2001 armed conflict in Macedonia.
Tortevski claims that the police used the embezzlement charges to reopen the "Rastanska Lozja" case because Stojkov was offered acquittal on embezzlement charges if he testified against Boskovski, which he refused.
The lawyer also claims that two of Boskovski's former subordinates accepted to testify against him for money as well as that Skopje prosecutor Sterja Zikov and others involved in the case were offered ambassadorial posts to have Boskovski sentenced in Croatia.