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For the last 24 years, Sead Dukic has been living a quiet life with his wife and daughter, ensconced in a diminutive red-brick house, obscured from the road by two sycamores out front and a hillock to the side. The only view in is from a house to the other side, which over the years has proudly flown an American flag. Any neighborly patriot may have had little concern about Dukic. Until recently, at least.
Earlier this month, immigration cops stormed his home and claimed that his birth name was not Dukic, but Miljkovic. Charges and a search warrant unsealed in the last week state that he was on Interpol’s red notice list and wanted by authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina for allegedly committing war crimes during the Bosnian War.
While he may have been able to change his name, he could alter neither his face nor his fingerprints. His biometric markers helped confirm his real identity, according to the DHS, which said it used facial recognition and fingerprint software to match U.S. records for Dukic with Bosnia and Herzegovina files for Miljkovic.
No more information has been provided by either U.S. or foreign law enforcement regarding his alleged war crimes. Arrested last week, just as he was about to head off to Cancun with his wife,...
Police are investigating Park Chulmin, 36, a former member of the Seongnam International Mafia Group, who raised allegations about President Lee Jae Myung’s alleged ties to organized crime during ...