Zagreb County Court Investigating Judge Zdenko Posavec confirmed to reporters that he had received the prosecution request and that he would decide on it within the next 24 hours.
The prosecution insists that Glavas should not have made public the statements which the first two witnesses had made at a hearing before the Zagreb County Court on Monday.
After the hearing Glavas circulated the statements by former assistant interior minister Zeljko Tomljanovic and war volunteer Vjenceslav Bill to the press and posted them on his Internet site. According to the prosecution, he thereby influenced future witnesses on the basis of whose statements the court should determine Glavas's alleged role in war crimes against Serb civilians in the eastern city of Osijek in 1991.
Independently of the prosecution, the investigating judge today asked all the parties to the case to sign a statement pledging they would not disclose details of the investigation to the public.
Hina learned unofficially that the prosecution was pleased with the move by the investigating judge.
The investigating judge said that the prosecution had failed to attach to the detention request the Parliament's decision stripping Glavas of his immunity.
Commenting on the request for his detention, Glavas said that all this would not have happened if the prosecution too had not leaked confidential information to the media.
"I think the public should be acquainted with all the statements in the case, but if the law does not allow it we will respect it. We will request that the prosecution behave in the same way," Glavas said.
Glavas is charged with ill-treating three ethnic Serb civilians in Osijek in 1991 and murdering another two, one of whom disappeared without trace.
The court today heard General Karl Gorinsek and Colonel Ivan Gruic. Neither of them had any knowledge of the crimes Glavas is charged with.
The case is expected to resume after a summer recess in early September.