This 80-year-old man was on Wednesday extradited from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Croatia where he was sentenced in absentia to 20 years for inciting the murder of three Croatian police officers in Krnjak in 1991.
Croatian authorities requested Bosnia to extradite Dakic, after on May 26 the Bosnian border police arrested him on an Interpol warrant issued by the Croatian authorities after his conviction to 20 years' imprisonment for war crimes.
Upon his handover to Croatia, Dakic, a former high-ranking Croatian Serb rebel official, was placed in custody in Karlovac.
State Secretary Homen said that the matter of the Dakic case was raised at the 8 July trilateral meeting of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian justice ministers in Sremski Karlovci when Serbia insisted on the repetition of proceedings given that Dakic had been tried in absentia by the Croatian judiciary in 1999.
According to Homen, Croatian officials promised to see to it that Dakic would be put on retrial.
Homen said that the Dakic case was given a priority but all of this was not only about him but also about "all Serbs who were sentenced in absentia when the Croatian judiciary demonstrated partiality".
Dakic was convicted by the Karlovac County Court for inciting the murder of three Croatian police officers -- Mile Butina, Josip Milcic and Zlatko Skrlec -- in Krnjak municipality on 4 August 1991. Dusan and Milan Tomic were convicted for the murder, each to 20 years' imprisonment.
The justice ministry of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed today that Dakic's transfer was approved and that Croatia had accepted to repeat the Dakic trial as he was previously tried in absentia.
The justice ministry's spokeswoman Marina Bakic said that Justice Minister Barisa Colak had signed Dakic's extradition after the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina had approved his handover to Croatia.