Former member of the Bosnian wartime presidency Ejup Ganic was arrested at London's Heathrow airport today on behalf of Serbian authorities, British police said.
Ganic, 63, was detained under a provisional extradition warrant for alleged "conspiracy to murder with other named people and breach of the Geneva Convention, namely killing wounded soldiers", police said in a statement.
He appeared at a magistrates' court later today, the British government said.
It added it was now up to Serbian authorities to provide full papers supporting their extradition request before a date could be fixed for an extradition hearing.
"A judge will then consider whether there are any bars to the extradition," a government spokesman said in a statement.
Ganic, who lives in Sarajevo, is one of 19 wanted in connection with an alleged attack on a column of the former Yugoslav Peoples' Army in Sarajevo in 1992.
The other 18 are also former officials of Bosnia's wartime government.
Ganic is currently manager of the private School of Science and Technology in Sarajevo. He no longer holds public office.
The US-brokered Dayton peace accord ended Bosnia's 1992-95 war, dividing the country in two autonomous regions, the Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat federation.
Reuters