BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A war criminal from Bosnia and Herzegovina who lived in Connecticut admitted in federal court this week to lying about her past transgressions to obtain U.S. citizenship.

Nada Radovan Tomanic, a 53-year-old who spent time living in Hartford, pleaded guilty in Bridgeport on Monday to one count of procuring citizenship contrary to law and faces a maximum prison term of 10 years when she is sentenced on Feb. 3, 2026.

This development was announced in a report on Friday released by Interim U.S. Attorney David Sullivan for the District of Connecticut.

Tomanic, who currently lives in West Virginia, was a member of the Zulfikar Special Unit of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, while the region was experiencing an armed conflict.

According to Sullivan’s

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