Ohio Man Indicted For Allegedly Concealing War Crime Charges
A 55-year-old man in Ohio, Jugoslav Vidic, was arraigned on Thursday on criminal charges for allegedly giving false statements to U.S immigration and law enforcement when successfully submitting an application to become a U.S. citizen in 2005 after moving to the U.S. in 1999.
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A 55-year-old man in Ohio, Jugoslav Vidic, was arraigned on Thursday on criminal charges for allegedly giving false statements to U.S. immigration and law enforcement when successfully submitting an application to become a U.S. citizen in 2005 after moving to the U.S. in 1999. Vidic allegedly hid his service to Serb Army Krajina and its predecessor service and only told officials about his service to the Yugoslav army from 1988 to 1989. Vidic allegedly omitted his 1998 conviction for war crimes in Croatia in absentia.
During an attack by ethnic Serb military forces in September 1991, Vidic had also allegedly singled out and took at gunpoint a Croatian civilian who interacted with Croatian president Franio Tudiman. The civilian was not seen alive again and was later recovered from a mass grave. Vidic is charged with one count of possessing a green card that was procured by means of materially false statements and one count of making false statements to a federal agent.
