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An immigrant from Bosnia and Herzegovina has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for committing fraud during her U.S. naturalization process.
Nada Radovan Tomanic, 53, hid her intensely dark past past while living for years in Connecticut and West Virginia.
On Nov. 10, 2025, Tomanic pleaded guilty to one count of procuring citizenship contrary to law.
Tomanic concealed her involvement in torture amounting to war crimes while serving with the Zulfikar Special Unit of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s during armed conflict in the Balkans.
“The defendant tortured and abused prisoners in Bosnia and then lied to U.S. immigration authorities to live in the U.S. and become a citizen,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
Tomanic lied under oath about inflicting severe physical and psychological abuse against Bosnian Serb prisoners.
“Homeland Security Investigations was instrumental in uncovering the facts of this case, ensuring accountability for an individual who committed torture abroad and fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship,” Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C. Special Agent in Charge Eric Weindorf told Border Hawk.
“This case highlights HSI’s commitment to investigating human rights violations and pursuing justice for victims of war crimes worldwide.”
Since 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 5,200 individuals for human rights-related violations of the law under various criminal and immigration statutes.
During that same period, ICE obtained deportation orders against and physically removed 1,178 known or suspected human rights violators from the United States. ICE has facilitated the departure of an additional 208 such individuals from the U.S.
Currently, HSI is conducting more than 1,900 active investigations into suspected human rights violators and is pursuing more than 1,985 leads and removals cases involving suspected human rights violators from 955 different countries.
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