The request for Spain to extradite Luka Bojovic, Vladimir Milisavljevic and Sinisa Petric will contain documents and evidence accusing them of crimes that have not yet been investigated officially, the Serbian Justice Ministry told Tanjug on Tuesday. The files will contain material used as the basis for preliminary criminal proceedings against Petric on suspicion that he led a platoon during the NATO bombing in 1999, which killed more than 90 ethnic Albanian convicts at a prison. Petric disappeared in 2003, and the preliminary criminal proceedings for the war crime were started by the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor, based on the criminal charges filed by the Humanitarian Law Centre. The warrant issued by the Serbian Interpol, which caused his arrest in Spain, was issued on Petric because he has to serve a 15-year prison sentence. He has served less than 5 years of that. Petric was sentenced to death in Serbia, because he killed a family of three in 1994, during a robbery he committed as a member of Marinko Magda's group. The sentence was later changed to 15 years in prison and he was sent to the prison in Pozarevac, eastern Serbia. From Pozarevac, he was moved together with 11 other convicts serving time for the most serious offences to the Dubrava prison in Kosovo, and it is suspected that weapons arrived at the prison together with them. The prosecutor's office is investigating whether they killed the ethnic Albanian prisoners after being promised freedom in return. All incriminating evidence in possession of the war crimes prosecutor will be delivered to Spain along with other documentation and the extradition request, because it is required so that he could be prosecuted for the war crime as well after he is extradited. According to the Council of Europe Convention on Extradition, when an accused is extradited, he can no longer be tried for crimes that were not mentioned in the extradition request. For now, Bojovic is wanted by Serbia based only on the organized crime prosecutor's indictment, where he is described as the heir of the dead leaders of the Zemun Clan and suspected of three murders and two attempted murders. Milisavljevic is wanted in order to serve a 40-year prison sentence for crimes committed as a member of the Zemun Clan and another 30 years for involvement in the assassination of Serbia's former prime minister Zoran Djindjic in 2003. He is also wanted for taking part in the murders that Bojovic is accused of. Bojovic, Milisavljevic and Petric were arrested in Valencia on February 9 based on a warrant by the Serbian Interpol. Vladimir Mijanovic, who was best man at Bojovic's wedding, was arrested with them, but Serbia has issued no warrant on him and he was not detained by the Spanish police.
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