Former Connecticut Resident Pleads Guilty to Lying to Obtain U.S. Citizenship

Sentencing is set for Feb. 3, 2026, after prosecutors said she hid wartime abuses to secure naturalization.

Overview

Nada Radovan Tomanic, 53, pleaded guilty on Nov. 10, 2025 in Bridgeport federal court to one count of procuring citizenship contrary to law.
According to court documents, she served with the Zulfikar Special Unit in the 1990s and took part in the physical and psychological abuse of Bosnian Serb civilian detainees.
Prosecutors say she falsely denied detention-related service and an unarrested crime of inflicting serious bodily harm on her 2012 naturalization forms, then repeated those lies under oath in a USCIS interview.
She faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison, with sentencing scheduled for Feb. 3, 2026.
The FBI led the investigation with DHS’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center, USCIS’s fraud unit, and the FBI’s International Human Rights Unit, while DOJ credited assistance from Bosnian, Republic of Srpska, Serbian authorities, and the UN tribunal mechanism; some reporting notes denaturalization could follow in a separate process.