This case is known in the public as the killings on the Drava River Bank or as the Sellotape case.
Judge Mario Kovac thus today granted a request which the Osijek County Prosecutor's Office submitted on 23 October, the spokesman for the local court, Miroslav Rozac, said in a press release.
According to the press release, independent member of parliament Branimir Glavas is charged with crimes against humanity and with violations of international law which he committed from October 1991 to the end of 1991 in the above-mentioned case.
The investigating judge has not yet decided on the possible detention of the suspect, given that the Zagreb County Court has already ruled about his detention and he has been in custody since last Thursday.
Osijek prosecutors moved for taking Glavas in custody due to the fear that he might obstruct the probe and due to the very grave circumstances under which the crimes were committed.
In response to reporters' questions about a possible joinder of investigative proceedings which are being conducted against Glavas for his involvement in the Sellotape case and in the so-called Garage case before the Zagreb County Court, spokesman Rozac told Hina that such a proposal could be made only after deadlines for all appeals expired.
On 24 October, judge Kovac ruled that the Osijek County Court had no territorial jurisdiction over the investigation against Glavas in the Drava River Bank case, quoting the relevant law's provisions on the application of the Rome Statute stating that the court which has already launched a probe into the suspect for some criminal offence has the jurisdiction.
After that, the Osijek County Prosecutor's Office appealed against the judge's ruling, and a panel of judges of the Osijek County Court quashed Judge Kovac's decision.
Suspect Glavas, who is in custody in Zagreb, went on hunger strike after he was taken to the Remetinec detention centre last Thursday. He began the hunger strike to protest against what he said were politically-motivated proceedings regarding the Sellotape case in which he was a victim.