A 53-year-old woman from Bosnia and Herzegovina who participated in the torture and abuse of Bosnian Serb civilian prisoners during the 1990s war has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after lying on her U.S. citizenship application to conceal her past atrocities.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Nada Radovan Tomanić was arrested in West Virginia in 2023.
Tomanić was finally sentenced on April 8 in Connecticut.
She had pleaded guilty in November to one count of procuring U.S. citizenship contrary to law.
According to the Department of Justice, Tomanić served with the Zulfikar Special Unit of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early 1990s, including operations on Mt. Igman near Sarajevo.
Along with other unit members, she took part in the severe physical and psychological abuse of Bosnian Serb civilian prisoners held in detention facilities. The abuse included beatings and acts that amounted to torture and inhuman treatment, targeting victims based on their ethnicity and religion.
Tomanić entered the United States as a “refugee” in 1997.
In 2012, while living in Connecticut, she applied for naturalization.
On her application and during a sworn-in-person interview, she falsely denied ever serving in a detention facility, detaining others, or committing any crime involving the infliction of serious bodily harm.
Those lies allowed her to unlawfully obtain U.S. citizenship.
Tomanić worked for approximately 10 years at a grocery warehouse distributor in Connecticut before moving to West Virginia.
Federal investigators, including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center, uncovered her wartime conduct through cooperation with authorities in Bosnia, Serbia, and the United Nations.
Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division stated, “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. Human rights violators are not welcome in the United States.”
U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan for the District of Connecticut added, “There is no statute of limitations for human decency.”
The case was prosecuted by the Justice Department’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP), which targets individuals who commit human rights violations abroad and then seek safe haven in the United States through immigration fraud.
Tomanić was taken into custody immediately following her sentencing.
As part of the outcome, her U.S. citizenship has been revoked, and she faces deportation after serving her prison term.
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