A former Connecticut woman has pleaded guilty to lying about having committed war crimes in another country to gain citizenship to the United States.

Nada Radovan Tomanic, 53, of West Virginia and formerly of Hartford took a plea deal on Monday in federal court in Bridgeport, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut .

Tomanic, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Bosnia and Herzegovina, pleaded guilty to one count of procuring citizenship contrary to law, federal officials said. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 3 and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.

Authorities said Tomanic served with the Zulfikar Special Unit of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, during an armed conflict in the region. Along with other Zulfikar Special Unit soldi

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