Former high-ranking police officer in Bosnia's Federation entity Edin Vranj was released after spending a little over a month in detention in Serbia, over suspicion of committing war crimes during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

The information was confirmed on Monday by Bosnian foreign minister Bisera Turkovic.

“We welcome this decision. Cooperation between the prosecutor's offices in war crimes processing is necessary for normalisation,” Turkovic tweeted.

Vranj was arrested on September 12 after he crossed the Serbian border on the Uvac border crossing on the charges of alleged war crimes committed in Gorazde, the eastern Bosnia, during 1993 and 1994.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia, Vranj is suspected of participating in the harassment and beatings of Serb war prisoners who were members of then army of Republika Srpska, the Serb-majority entity in BiH, between January 1993 and October 1994.

He is former high-ranking official of the Police Administration of Bosnia's Federation (FBiH) entity.

Last week, the Cabinet of Serbian President confirmed that the Serbian Prosecutor's Office for War Crimes issued an indictment against Vranj and asked the Belgrade Higer Court to hand over the case to the Bosnian authorities in charge of war crime processing.