Mihaljevic said that after his surrender Bralo was taken to an SFOR base in Bosnia-Herzegovina and was expected to be transferred to The Hague, but he would not say which base the indictee was in.
So far SFOR has transferred ICTY indictees who were arrested or surrendered voluntarily from its air base near the northern town of Tuzla.
Bralo is expected to enter his plea before the tribunal early next week, Mihaljevic said.
ICTY spokesman Jim Landale said he could not say anything until the indictee was transferred to the tribunal's detention unit at Scheveningen, while the spokeswoman for the prosecution, Florence Hartmann, confirmed only that Bralo had surrendered to SFOR on Wednesday.
Bozo Kovacevic, an attorney from Rijeka, Croatia, whom Bralo intends to hire as defence counsel, confirmed in an interview with Hina that Bralo was in the hands of SFOR and that he should be transferred to The Hague during the day or on Friday.
He stressed that Bralo was not arrested but surrendered voluntarily, and that he had not been in Croatia.
The indictment against the Bosnian Croat was issued in 1995 but was unsealed two weeks ago. ICTY chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte said in her report to NATO on November 3 that along with General Ante Gotovina Croatia was also expected to transfer Bralo.
According to attorney Kovacevic, since the issuing of the indictment Bralo permanently resided in Bosnia-Herzegovina and he neither possessed nor applied for Bosnian citizenship.
There is an oddity connected with Bralo, a former member of the Croat Defence Council's (HVO) special operations unit The Jokers, which was confirmed by Kovacevic.
Back in 1999, Bralo surrendered voluntarily to Dutch SFOR troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina, but was refused because his name was not on the list of ICTY indictees. After consultations with the Hague tribunal, the Dutch soldiers were requested to detain him, but Bralo had already gone his own way.
Bralo's neighbours in his home town of Vitez claim that he has been living in the southern Croatian town of Knin and that he has not been seen in central Bosnia for years.