A Serbian war crimes suspect nicknamed “Captain Dragan” has arrived in Zagreb from Australia to face allegations of torture and murder after battling extradition for a decade.
“After a long battle, which started nine years ago, Dragan Vasiljkovic was extradited … and is now in Croatia,” Justice Minister Orsat Miljenic told reporters on Thursday.
“From now on he will be treated as any other suspect,” he said.
Vasiljkovic, a paramilitary commander from a Serbian rebel group that opposed Croatia’s independence from Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, landed at Zagreb airport, from where he was to be transferred to the coastal town of Split. In Split, he is to be questioned by prosecutors.
He was put on a plane in Sydney on Wednesday, three years after Canberra approved his extradition.
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