London , England ( CNN ) -- The former vice president of Bosnia was arrested Monday in London on a request from Serbia , where he is wanted for conspiracy to murder and breach of the Geneva Convention . Metropolitan police arrested Ejup Ganic at Heathrow Airport on Monday afternoon , and he appeared at the City of Westminster Magistrates ' Court , the United Kingdom Foreign Office said in a news release . The British authorities were awaiting the full extradition paperwork before a court date for an extradition hearing can be set , the Foreign Office said . Citing the ongoing case , authorities declined to comment further . Ganic was the vice president of Bosnia during the bloody civil war there between 1992 and 1995 , and he was twice president of the Bosnian-Croat Federation in the years after the Dayton peace agreement in 1995 . Ganic was regarded by many independent commentators at the time as a relative moderate in the war-time Bosnian leadership . An engineer by profession , Ganic studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States . He would regularly brief journalists during the three-year civil war from his often-shelled office in the Bosnian presidency building in the heart of Sarajevo . On Sunday , Bosnia and Serbia signed an agreement on extraditions for war crimes committed during the war that would let Bosnians be tried in Bosnia and Serbs in Serbia . Ganic was in Britain attending a graduation ceremony at the University of Buckingham , which partners with a university in Sarajevo in which Ganic is reported to have a significant financial interest . CNN 's Nic Robertson contributed to this report .
Ejup Ganic wanted in Serbia on charges of conspiracy to murder . He was vice president during bloody civil war of 1992-95 . Engineer studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Bosnia , Serbia signed agreement on extraditions Sunday .