Croatian state prosecutor Mladen Bajic, Serbian chief war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic and Bosnia's state prosecutor Milorad Barasin are expected to consider the circumstances of the case of Croatian war veteran Purda, who is being kept in six-month extradition detention in Bosnia after he was arrested on the Orasje border crossing on 5 January.
In the meantime, the War Crimes Chamber of the High Court in Belgrade asked Bosnian state prosecutors to hear Purda, who is in custody in Zenica awaiting extradition to Serbia to face charges of war crimes allegedly committed in the Vukovar area in the early 1990s.
Purda will be questioned next Monday, 21 February. The hearing will be conducted by Bosnian prosecutorial authorities, while representatives of the court that has requested the hearing can attend as observers.
Purda's lawyer Josip Muselimovic on Monday expressed hope that after the questioning Serbia would drop criminal proceedings against his client.
The lawyer reiterated that evidence against Purda was collected unlawfully while he was subjected to torture in a Serbian concentration camp.