Overview
- Nada Radovan Tomanic, 53, of West Virginia and formerly of Hartford, admitted in Bridgeport federal court on Nov. 10 to procuring citizenship contrary to law.
- According to court filings, she served with the Zulfikar Special Unit during the 1990s conflict and participated in the physical and psychological abuse of Bosnian Serb civilian detainees.
- Prosecutors say she lied on her 2012 naturalization application and again under oath to a USCIS officer about serving in detention settings and about uncharged criminal conduct.
- The FBI led the investigation with DHS’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center, USCIS’s Office of Fraud Detection and National Security, and the FBI’s International Human Rights Unit, with assistance from authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Srpska, Serbia and the U.N. IRMCT.
- Officials said the conviction could lead to a separate civil action to revoke her naturalization, and they urged tips about suspected human-rights violators via FBI and Homeland Security hotlines.