A New Zealand man charged over the cold case murder of Adelaide man Robert Sabeckis has not applied for bail.
The man appeared for a brief hearing in Adelaide Magistrates Court yesterday and was remanded to reappear in June.
He had been arrested in Auckland earlier this month and was given interim name suppression when he appeared in Waitakere District Court, where he did not oppose extradition.
In 2000, Mr Sabeckis was fatally shot in a car park near Maslin Beach, south of Adelaide.
The offender stole his car and crashed it into a fence before abandoning it.
A search of the area found a jacket and shotgun, but no arrest was made until DNA turned up a positive match in New Zealand.
The testing was allowed after laws were changed to permit access to information on New Zealand's DNA database.
In a press conference held by South Australian police after the arrest, Detective Superintendent Des Bray said police had not established a motive for the crime.
"[Robert] was a single fellow and living with his mum. He was an accountant, a singer, a good, decent person who was a victim of a terrible homicide," he said.
In 2009, the state government offered a $200,000 reward to help solve the case, and in 2016 offered immunity from prosecution for anyone involved in a break-in connected with the killing.
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