{"id":203076,"date":"2026-03-02T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=203076"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:01:43","slug":"aco-dukanovic-remains-behind-bars-milos-brother-ordered-30-days-of-detention-for-possession-of-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/aco-dukanovic-remains-behind-bars-milos-brother-ordered-30-days-of-detention-for-possession-of-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"ACO \u0110UKANOVI\u0106 REMAINS BEHIND BARS: Milo’s brother ordered 30 days of detention for possession of weapons!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Detention has been ordered for businessman Aco \u0110ukanovi\u0107, the brother of the former president and prime minister of Montenegro, Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107, due to reasonable suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of illegal possession and carrying of weapons and explosive materials, the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office (ODT) in Nik\u0161i\u0107 announced today.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement notes that detention was ordered for him due to the risk of flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Upon the proposal of the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Nik\u0161i\u0107, detention has been ordered for A.\u0110. due to reasonable suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of illegal possession and carrying of weapons and explosive materials. Detention was ordered due to the risk of flight. It is reasonably suspected that A.\u0110. unauthorizedly kept weapons and ammunition in his house in Nik\u0161i\u0107,” the statement reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Vijesti” reported this morning that while awaiting the decision of the investigating judge of the Basic Court in Nik\u0161i\u0107, Sava Mu\u0161iki\u0107, on whether Aco \u0110ukanovi\u0107 will prove from detention that the arsenal of weapons found in the attic of the house in Rastoci is not his, it is also expected that the Podgorica prosecutor’s office will begin a detailed analysis of the documentation seized from his apartment in Podgorica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the same information, this refers to extensive documentation stored in multiple binders, which police inspectors seized during the search of the apartment of the brother of former president Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Police Administration previously officially announced that certain documentation was taken during the search of \u0110ukanovi\u0107’s apartment in the center of Podgorica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“During the search in Podgorica, police officers took certain documentation, about which the competent prosecutor’s office was informed, and a case will be formed regarding the aforementioned for the purpose of further action. To protect the interests of the police officers’ proceedings, we are unable at this moment to provide more information about the activities carried out on the territory of Podgorica,” the UP announced after \u0110ukanovi\u0107’s arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two days ago, “Vijesti” published that, according to the newspaper’s unofficial findings, several expensive watches were listed and photographed during the search of \u0110ukanovi\u0107’s apartment on Vuka Karad\u017ei\u0107a Street in Podgorica, from where the documentation was also taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the search of his property in Podgorica and Nik\u0161i\u0107, two cases were formed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the one initiated due to the discovery of weapons and ammunition, an order to conduct an investigation was issued, and prosecutor Vanja Sin\u0111i\u0107 proposed that the court order him detention for up to 30 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge Mu\u0161iki\u0107 heard the suspect for illegal possession of weapons last night, but did not make a decision on the proposal for detention immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of \u0110ukanovi\u0107’s defense attorneys, lawyer Nikola Martinovi\u0107, told reporters that the judge has a deadline to make a decision until 2:30 a.m. on March 3, when \u0110ukanovi\u0107’s 72-hour detention ordered by prosecutor Sin\u0111i\u0107 expires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Martinovi\u0107, certain items listed in the original criminal complaint were excluded from the order to conduct the investigation \u2013 bulletproof vests and a portion of the weapons for which it was subsequently determined that a permit exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In relation to last night’s criminal complaint, an order to conduct an investigation was issued which does not include a part of the items that the prosecutor put in the criminal complaint, i.e., which the police identified as a criminal offense. Firstly, there are no longer bulletproof vests because that is not a criminal offense, there are no weapons that supposedly existed, for which they determined there is a permit. There are still some weapons for which I claim a permit exists, they couldn’t find it, but we will find it,” Martinovi\u0107 said last night, as reported by the Radio and Television Nik\u0161i\u0107 (RTNK) portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that \u0110ukanovi\u0107 answered all the questions of the judge, who examined him in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0110ukanovi\u0107 was brought before the investigating judge of the Basic Court in Nik\u0161i\u0107 last night around 7 p.m., and the hearing ended shortly before 9 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, his defense was also provided by a three-member legal team consisting of \u0110ukanovi\u0107’s sister, lawyer Ana \u0110ukanovi\u0107, and her colleagues Neda Ivovi\u0107 and Martinovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A group of relatives and friends of the arrested \u0110ukanovi\u0107 gathered in front of the Nik\u0161i\u0107 court building again yesterday, among whom were the wife and son of his brother Milo \u2013 Lidija and Bla\u017eo \u0110ukanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aco \u0110ukanovi\u0107 was arrested on the night between February 27 and 28, around 2:30 a.m., following a search of his property in Podgorica and Nik\u0161i\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Nik\u0161i\u0107 announced that after the hearing, a detention of up to 72 hours was ordered due to reasonable suspicion that he unauthorizedly kept weapons and ammunition in the family house in the Nik\u0161i\u0107 settlement of Rastoci. The risk of flight was cited as the reason for the detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to unofficial information from “Vijesti,” \u0110ukanovi\u0107 has crossed the state border more than 20 times in the past six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a several-hour hearing at the prosecutor’s office, Martinovi\u0107 said on Saturday evening that part of the found weapons belongs to Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107, while part was inherited from their late father and documentation exists for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Some rifles with a dedication to his brother Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107 were found, and it is definitively clear that those rifles have no connection whatsoever with Aco \u0110ukanovi\u0107. Also, a quantity of weapons belonging to his late father was found, for which documentation exists. The police took all those weapons. They will be the subject of expert analysis, and I think there will be no dispute about that. Aco agrees to the expert analysis. DNA was taken. To our knowledge, the DNA will absolutely certainly show that Aco \u0110ukanovi\u0107 has no connection with those rifles,” said Martinovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding the ammunition found at \u0110ukanovi\u0107’s, Martinovi\u0107 said it was likely forgotten by officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) and the National Security Agency (ANB), who were securing Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“One package of ammunition of various calibers was found\u2026 That is probably a leftover from the MUP of Montenegro and the ANB, the former State Security, which provided security for the protected person in that space, the former prime minister and president of Montenegro \u2013 Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107,” Martinovi\u0107 said two nights ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the same about the bulletproof vests found in the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As for the bulletproof vests, we also assume that those vests were left by members of the MUP of Montenegro who have been in that house for years\u2014everyone in Nik\u0161i\u0107 knows that, both in front and inside\u2014performing security for protected persons and all persons who stayed in that house.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answering a question from “Vijesti” about whether he considers the police and ANB negligent or forgetful and why they would leave that much ammunition in any house of any protected person, Martinovi\u0107 said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I don’t know what ‘that much’ is to you; it is not my place to deal with what the ANB or the police do, it is my place to deal with and clearly show that Aco \u0110ukanovi\u0107 has no connection with that ammunition and those pistols.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He pointed out that the weapons have numbers and that they are not forged weapons of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two days ago, the UP announced that they conducted searches of several of \u0110ukanovi\u0107’s buildings and premises, based on orders obtained from the territorially competent prosecutor’s offices and courts in Podgorica and Nik\u0161i\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They explained that during the activities undertaken in the territory of Nik\u0161i\u0107, while searching the family house in Rastoci, they found a large quantity of firearms and ammunition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A ‘Mauser’ brand hunting carbine with an optical sight, in illegal possession. A ‘Brno’ brand rifle with a ‘Bushnell’ brand optical sight, in illegal possession. An unknown brand shotgun, in illegal possession. An unknown brand pistol, in illegal possession. An ‘M-48’ brand hunting carbine, in illegal possession.
A ‘CZ 99 PARA’ brand pistol with a magazine containing five pieces of ammunition and a weapons license in the name of a deceased family member. Over 400 pieces of ammunition of various brands and calibers. Three empty magazines. Five protective ballistic bulletproof vests. ‘Zeiss’ brand binoculars,” they stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aco \u0110ukanovi\u0107 is the largest shareholder of Prva Banka (around 41.5%). The bank has been in the public focus for years due to state aid in 2008, subsequent suspicions regarding the manner of returning that money, as well as due to supervisory measures and business indicators in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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