The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that it has filed a civil complaint to revoke the American citizenship of Sead Miljković, also known as Sead Dukić, for concealing his true identity. According to U.S. authorities, a warrant had been issued for him in Bosnia and Herzegovina on suspicion of committing war crimes.
According to the Department of Justice, Miljković is a former member of the security forces of the self-proclaimed Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia (APZB). A court in Bosnia and Herzegovina had issued a warrant against him for war crimes against civilians at the time he obtained U.S. citizenship through naturalization.
Miljković entered the United States in 1996 and became a naturalized American citizen in 2007. However, the complaint alleges that he failed to disclose to U.S. immigration authorities that he had used multiple names, provided different birth dates and locations in various applications, and reported different names for his father and more than one wife.
The arrest warrant issued on January 23, 2007, by Bosnian authorities later led to the issuance of a Red Notice by Interpol. It states that on June 18, 1994, Miljković, as a member of APZB security forces, allegedly physically abused civilians who opposed the APZB government.
According to the international arrest warrant, Miljković and his collaborators are suspected of beating 12 civilians and detaining them for several days in inhumane conditions, without access to light or water. To date, he has not appeared in court in Bosnia and Herzegovina to face these charges.
“Our administration will not allow foreign individuals to come to this country and conceal their past in order to receive the precious gift of American citizenship,” said U.S. Deputy Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice.
The Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia was declared in 1993 in the Velika Kladuša area and part of the Cazin region by controversial businessman Fikret Abdić and was dissolved in 1995.
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