Zagreb native Ivor Ivanišević (47), a wanted fugitive employed in the European Parliament, was finally arrested. According to Jutarnji list, he was handcuffed a few days ago in Germany and is currently in extradition custody in Belgium.

The aforementioned moves followed years of ignoring Croatia's European arrest warrant, four months before the expiration of the statute of limitations and two weeks after Ivanišević was sentenced for the second time in absentia to one year of unconditional imprisonment at the Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb.

He was convicted of sexually abusing one of his two dogs and exchanging zoophilic preferences in the virtual world with like-minded people. The court also ordered him to pay 4,278.52 euros in costs, which included veterinary expertise, court fees and psychiatric expertise on business capacity.

The Municipal Court in Zagreb passed a non-final judgment about twenty days ago.

Without specifying the identity of the defendant, the prosecution announced that "he was convicted of the criminal acts of killing or torturing animals from an unspecified date in 2009 to September 21, 2015 at various addresses in Zagreb, Croatia. All in order to satisfy his instinct of sexual desire and agree to cause the dog unnecessary pain and suffering".

DORH points out that Zagreb Municipal Court sentenced Ivanišević to the longest prison term prescribed by the Criminal Code (only one year). It is about a verdict in a repeated procedure which, according to the media, was pronounced four months before the statute of limitations.

In the first trial at the same court in September 2021, Ivanišević was also sentenced without finality to a maximum sentence of one year in prison for years of dog abuse, as well as the manner in which he carried out the crimes he described in detail in his email.

Ivanišević is an employee of the European Parliament and was inaccessible to the Croatian judiciary for a long time. He was also a member of the Council for Ecumenism of the Croatian Bishops' Conference.

He was caught in 2015 as part of an action against pedophiles who exploit children over the Internet. Then the investigators noticed one IP address from which information about animals in explicit poses was being spread.

The e-mail address was registered to a company that deals in graphic design, and its headquarters were in Zagreb's Knežija. The owner of the company was Ivanišević, and after the search of the company, his apartment in Zagreb was also searched.

They seized 111 DVDs and CDs, mobile phones and memory cards from him and found that he used at least five different e-mails to spread suspicious content. Through these emails, he sent pictures of dogs in sexual poses with men and photos of genitals. In one of the many emails, he described how he tried to achieve an SM relationship with dogs.

The unfortunate dogs, a male and a female, were found in bad condition and were sent to a shelter in Dumovac. The female Rhodesian Ridgeback, whom Ivanišević sexually abused, died very quickly from the injuries he inflicted on her.

- The female died shortly after arriving at the shelter. She was completely destroyed by the rape. The male is still alive. He's in Dumovac - an animal protection activist said in 2021.