The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a civil complaint Monday to revoke the citizenship of a man facing a war crimes arrest in Bosnia.
Sead Miljkovic allegedly gave false information to immigration authorities upon receiving his U.S. citizenship in 2007, according to a DOJ press release.
Miljkovic was a member of the security forces of the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia (APZB) and was subject to an arrest warrant issued by Bosnian courts regarding alleged war crimes against civilians during the time he received his citizenship, according to the DOJ. (RELATED: Court Orders City To Pay Convicted Murderer Nearly $3 Million)
The DOJ alleges that Miljkovic, who also used the last name Dukic, hid his true identity by failing to disclose that he had used more than one name, listed more than one date and place of birth, more than one name of his father and more than one woman listed as his wife in multiple applications.
“This Administration will not permit aliens to come to this country and hide their past to acquire the precious gift of U.S. citizenship,” Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the DOJ’s Civil Division said in a statement. “Decades might pass, but when we find you, we will take action.”
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The warrant was issued in 2007 and resulted in an INTERPOL Red Notice alleging that as a member of APZB’s security force, Miljkovic and his accomplices beat a dozen civilians in opposition to their authority with wooden bats, the DOJ stated. They allegedly locked the civilians in “a morgue for five days without access to light or water.”
Miljkovic was found not guilty of torture in a Tennessee court in May. His attorneys previously invoked the statute of limitations, as the alleged torture took place in another country nearly 30 years ago, according to ABC affiliate News Channel 9.
However, Miljkovic has yet to face a Bosnian court on these charges, according to the DOJ’s press release.
The civil complaint for revocation of citizenship follows an investigation conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations, the press release states.
Miljkovic’s case is being civilly prosecuted by the DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation, Affirmative Litigation Unit, along with help from the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
