"The Croatian State Prosecutor has announced a possibility of transferring the case to us, and whether we will accept (dealing with the case file) or not will depend on the state of evidence in the file," Vekaric told the paper on Thursday.
He said that the Belgrade-based prosecution for war crimes was conducting preliminary inquiries into the Stajicevo and Begejci case, following a report forwarded by the Croatian "Vukovar 91" association.
According to first information, the Serbian prosecutorial authorities are waiting for the outcome of a police investigation.
The County Office of the Chief State Prosecutor in Osijek has issued an indictment against two Serbian nationals -- Aleksandar Vasiljevic and Miroslav Zivanovic -- over war crimes committed against civilians and prisoners of war in detention camps.
Those camps were set up in Begejci, Stajicevo, Sremska Mitrovica and Nis in Serbia and in Stara Gradiska when this Croatian town was under the control of Serb rebels supported by the then Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) during the 1991-1995 Homeland Defence War.
The Croatian Commission for Missing Persons and Detainees has earlier reported that 7,666 people were exchanged from those camps between December 1991 and August 1992, including 219 juveniles, 932 women and 424 people above the age of 60; 46 per cent were civilians and 52 per cent soldiers, while the status of the rest was unidentified.
Former inmates have testified about murders they witnessed in those camps and about the torture and mistreatment they experienced there.
"In all the prisons in Serbia, prisoners were subjected to mental and physical torture, without exception," the head of the above-mentioned commission, Ivan Grujic, said.