Former Yugoslav and Croatian intelligence officer Josip Perkovic, sentenced to life imprisonment by a Munich court in August 2016 for his role in the murder of Croatian dissident Stjepan Djurekovic outside Munich in 1983, could be transferred to Croatia on Thursday to continue serving his sentence, his lawyer Anto Nobilo told Hina.

Nobilo admitted that there was still no official confirmation that Pekrovic might be handed over to Croatia today, however the lawyer expected him to arrive in Zagreb in the course of the day aboard flights from Munich.

In that case, Perkovic is likely to be driven from the airport first to the Remetinec prison in Zagreb before being transferred to some other jail in the country to serve his 30-year prison term.

On 14 May Croatia’s Supreme Court overturned an appeal which Perkovic’s defence team lodged against the decision of Zagreb County Court to modify the term of life imprisonment, which a German court imposed on Perkovic for the 1983 murder of the dissident, into a 30-year prison sentence which he will serve in Croatia. Thus, the Supreme Court upheld the Zagreb Court’s decision. The defence insisted earlier that the German court ruling should be translated into a 20-year prison sentence.

In Munich, Perkovic was convicted together with Zdravko Mustac, whose sentence was adjusted to Croatian law by the Velika Gorica County Court and who will serve 40 years upon his transfer to Croatia.

Dissident Djurekovic was murdered by a still unidentified perpetrators.