This morning police took to a Vukovar County Court investigating judge four Croatian nationals in connection with the crime. There is also a fifth suspect whose identity has still not been established.
The case was solved by the Vukovar County police department in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior's Crime Police, the police departments in Zagreb and Zadar, the military police and the State Prosecutor's Office.
Speaking about the murder of the 38-year-old Radomir Olujic, a Croatian Serb, his 37-year-old wife Anica, who was a Croat, and their son and daughter, who were 16 and 13 at the time, police director Marijan Benko said that the police arrested the man who had ordered the murder and three other men, including an active Croatian Army member. The police are looking for a fourth, still unidentified person involved in the killing.
The four are suspected of killing the Olujic family from machine-guns, in the night between 17 and 18 February 1992. After the murder, they stole the Olujics' jewellery, weapons owned by Radomir Olujic and other valuables, and planted explosive around their house with the intent of blowing it up.
The perpetrators did not manage to blow up the house, Benko said, adding that at the time of the murder the suspects were members of the Croatian Army whose units were deployed in Komletinci near Vinkovci.
Asked by reporters about the nature of the crime, considering the fact that it was committed in 1992 and the suspects were Croatian Army members, Benko said the police believed that this was murder for gain, but that it was up to the state prosecution to determine its exact nature.
He added that crimes such as the murder of the Olujic family had not been forgotten and that police were constantly working on solving them.
The investigating judge in Vukovar, Slavko Teofilovic, who questioned the four suspects today, ruled that they should be remanded in custody for the next 48 hours.