Bosnian-Born U.S. Citizen Pleads Guilty to Obtaining Naturalization by Fraud

Overview

• Nada Radovan Tomanic, 53, of West Virginia and formerly of Hartford, pleaded guilty on Nov. 10 in federal court in Bridgeport.
• According to court filings, she served in the Zulfikar Special Unit during the 1990s conflict and took part in the abuse of Bosnian Serb civilian detainees.
• Prosecutors say she lied on her 2012 naturalization application about detention service and uncharged criminal conduct, then repeated the falsehoods under oath in a USCIS interview.
• She admitted to one count of procuring citizenship contrary to law, in a case prosecuted by DOJ’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Connecticut.
• The FBI led the probe with support from DHS’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center, USCIS’s fraud unit, and authorities in Bosnia, Serbia, and the UN IRMCT, and some reporting notes denaturalization could be pursued in a separate proceeding.