The investigation against Bogdan Mitrović began yesterday and will end on September 22, after which Pristina prosecution will decide whether his custody will be extended, lawyer Dejan A. Vasić said yesterday, reports KiM radio.

Lawyer Dejan Vasić told Beta news agency that the investigation in the Special Prosecutor's Office in Pristina began with the hearing of the prosecution's main witness.

According to the lawyer, the Prosecution will then decide whether to extend Mitrović's custody, which expires on September 28th.

An investigation into the Mitrović case began with the hearing of the witness Xheladin Sadikaj, who repeated the allegations that Mitrović expelled him and his family in April 1999 and committed other crimes in co-operation with members of paramilitary formations.

According to Vasić, when asked why he had been waiting for nearly twenty years to accuse Mitrović, Sadikaj said that he had no confidence in the Kosovo judiciary, that EULEX mission was pale to him and that he thought they could not solve the case.

"In today's statement, the witness was rather inconsistent. According to him, Mitrović had a mask on his head at some point, in others he did not, he saw him, then he did not," Vasić said.

The court in Prizren ordered Mitrović (75) 30 days of pre-trial detention.

Mitrović was arrested on August 28 when he with his family members with a group of displaced Serbs arrived in Kosovo to visit his damaged house, a village church and a cemetery.