According to an indictment, Nada Radovan Tomanic was involved in the “physical and mental abuse of Bosnian Serb prisoners” in the 1990s.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A 53-year-old woman who was living in Morgantown, WV when she was arrested has pleaded guilty to lying about war crimes she committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina to gain U.S. citizenship.
Nada Radovan Tomanic was arrested in December 2023. According to an indictment, Tomanic was involved in the “physical and mental abuse of Bosnian Serb prisoners” in the 1990s.
Tomanic was serving in the Zulfikar Special Unit of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina when the alleged war crimes occurred.
When she applied for naturalization in 2012, investigators say, Tomanic denied having served at a detention facility. She also denied having inflicted physical abuse on anyone under the Criminal Law of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia.
She also lied during her interview with a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officer, they say.
Tomanic faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
She’s scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 3.