A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a Loganville man of obtaining his U.S. citizenship by fraud because he failed to disclose he was a guard at a Bosnian concentration camp almost 25 years ago.
Mladen Mitrovic, who has lived in the metro area for the past two decades, was found guilty of giving false answers in 2002 on his naturalization application form. Among them: Mitrovic said he had never persecuted anyone because of race, religion or national origin.
Mitrovic, who will be sentenced at a later date, faces up to 10 years in prison and deportation after serving his prison term.
Federal prosecutors accused Mitrovic of war-time atrocities — part of the ethnic cleansing of Roman Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks at the hands of Orthodox Christian Serbian forces in the former Yugoslavia.
“This is a case about a man who beat and tortured prisoners, ” Assistant U.S. Attorney Will Traynor told jurors during opening statements last week. “This case is about the lies and misleading information the defendant made to become a U.S. citizen.”
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