Image Credit: Sead Miljkovic sentencing document & Justice.gov
Tennessee Conservative News Staff –
A Bosnian man, living in East Ridge, faces the possibility of having his citizenship revoked after federal officials determined that he failed to disclose details of his past as a suspect of Bosnian war crimes.
A civil complaint has been filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, requesting that the citizenship of Sead Miljkovic be taken away.
The Department says that Miljkovic, also known as Sead Dukic, hid his actual identity and opted not to disclose certain information when he immigrated in 1996.
Miljkovic allegedly used multiple names, birth dates, and places of birth when entering the U.S. He also gave more than one name for his father and named more than one woman as his wife.
He was found guilty of passport fraud for providing a fake last name after he was denied entry into the country twice using his real name. He was sentenced to eight months of home detention with electric monitoring and was ordered to pay a $4000 fine.
Officials say a Bosnian court issued a warrant for Miljkovic in January 2007 for possible involvement in crimes that took place during the Bosnian war. He became a naturalized citizen later that same year.
According to investigators, Miljkovic served in the security forces of the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia. It is alleged that he and other officers mistreated civilians who did not align with the APZB Government on June 18, 1994. Twelve civilians were allegedly beaten with wooden bats and then imprisoned in a morgue with no light or water for five days.
Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate issued the following statement: “This administration will not permit aliens to come to this country and hide their past to acquire the precious gift of U.S. Citizenship. Decades might pass, but when we find you, we will take action.”
Miljkovic was found not guilty by a federal court of those crimes in 2025, but he has not yet faced a Bosnian court.
