In a written explanation of its decision, forwarded to the State Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday, Hrvatin said he agreed with Bajic's request because in a process like this one needs to remove any possibilities of influencing the witnesses including all doubts about pressuring or influencing witnesses, by both the prosecution and the defence.
Hrvatin's decision was also published on the Supreme Court's web site.
Glavas's attorney Ante Madunic said Bajic's request to refer the Sellotape case to Zagreb was bizarre, stressing that the court in Osijek had shown it was capable of processing the most severe crimes.
The prosecution charges Glavas and six other indictees with unlawful arrest, torture and killing of Serb civilians and civilians of other ethnic origins in Osijek in 1991 while the eastern Croatian city was exposed to the aggression of the Yugoslav People's Army and Serb paramilitaries.
On 16 April this year, the Osijek County Court issued an indictment against Glavas and the other indictees in the Sellotape case. On 17 April, Glavas was placed in custody, and the detention of the other indictees who were already in custody was extended. They were detained due to the gravity of crimes.
On 30 April, the Osijek County Court again decided on detention for Glavas and the six other indictees - Ivica Krnjak, Gordana Getos Magdic, Mirko Sivic, Dino Kontic, Tihomir Valentic, and Zdravko Dragic - after the Supreme Court quashed the first ruling of the lower-instance court and ordered it to again consider a decision on the detention of the said indictees.
Glavas was taken into custody in Zagreb in the late autumn of 2006 during an investigation into the Garage Case, before the Zagreb County Court, initially over his possible tampering with witnesses and later on grounds of the gravity of the crimes he was suspected of. He then went on huger strike, as a result of which his health deteriorated. He was released from custody in early December.