DOJ Files Civil Complaint to Revoke Citizenship of Bosnian American Over Alleged Identity Concealment

Overview

• The Justice Department filed the suit on Jan. 5 to strip Sead Miljkovic, also known as Sead Dukic, of naturalized citizenship.
• Prosecutors say he hid his identity when entering the United States in 1996 and later naturalizing in 2007, including inconsistent names, birth details, and family information.
• A 2007 Bosnian warrant and resulting INTERPOL Red Notice allege that, as an APZB security-force member, he and accomplices beat civilians and confined them for five days without light or water.
• The civil case, brought by DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Tennessee, follows an ICE Homeland Security Investigations probe.
• Miljkovic was acquitted of torture charges in a Tennessee court in May and has not appeared before a Bosnian court on the alleged wartime abuses.