According to a press release issued by the ICTY on its website "Zelenovic, a former Bosnian Serb policeman indicted for a range of war crimes including torture and rape committed in and around the south-eastern Bosnian town of Foca in 1992, was transferred from Bosnia and Herzegovina following an order of the country's State Court."
Zelenovic, who has been hiding in Russia for years, was nabbed and handed over by the Russian authorities to Sarajevo last Thursday.
According to the press release "the indictment alleges that Zelenovic raped, sexually assaulted and participated in gang-raping of women in a number of these places, including the gang-raping of a 15-year-old girl in the Buk Bijela detention center in July 1992."
"Zelenovic was originally indicted on 26 June 1996 together with several others including Gojko Jankovic, Radovan Stankovic, Dragoljub Kunarac, Radomir Kovac and Zoran Vukovic, all members of the Bosnian Serb military police or paramilitary units. The Tribunal convicted Kunarac, Kovac and Vukovic to 28, 20 and 12 years imprisonment, respectively, for crimes including raping, torturing and enslaving a number of Bosnian Muslim women and girls. The Tribunal transferred Jankovic and Stankovic to Bosnia and Herzegovina to stand trial for these crimes before the War Crimes Chamber in Sarajevo."
Zelenovic, who has been on the run for almost ten years, is likely to initially appear before the UN war crimes tribunal this week when he is due to enter a plea.