Police arrested Zoran Žuti Đukanović (57) and his son Luka Đukanović (26) from Nikšić on suspicion of beating a 31-year-old man on a street in Nikšić.
The Police Directorate announced that Zoran Đukanović is a member of an organized crime group. According to information from the security sector, he is close to former officials of the Nikšić police.
He and his son are suspected of violent behavior.
Zoran and Luka Đukanović are suspected of having struck the man several times in the head and body, causing him injuries, after which they left the scene.
"The state prosecutor at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Nikšić was informed about the incident, who stated that the actions of the two mentioned individuals constitute essential elements of the criminal offense of violent behavior. Police officers took measures to search for the individuals, and based on operational-tactical measures, they found and deprived Z. Đ. and then L. Đ. of their liberty. The police confiscated a 'Bruni' model 85 starting pistol from L. Đ.," it was announced.
The suspects will be brought before the competent prosecutor, along with a criminal report, on suspicion of having committed the aforementioned criminal offense.
Zoran Žuti Đukanović, from Nikšić, was arrested in February 2024 in a major operation by the Special State Prosecutor's Office and the Special Police Department against a powerful cigarette smuggling chain.
According to the SDT, Đukanović played an important role in organizing cigarette smuggling in a well-developed scheme over the years. He is accused of being part of the so-called Grand Clan, one of whose organizers, according to the special prosecutors, is Aleksandar Aco Mijajlović. At the end of last year, the High Court in Podgorica confirmed three indictments of the SDT of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, which were merged into one in mid-September 2025, in order to make a single decision on the roles of the criminal organization in the smuggling of cigarette cargo through the Port of Bar.
The Prosecutor's Office then explained that this involved the sale of cigarettes on the territory of Montenegro, which had previously been transported and stored in the Free Customs Zone of the Port of Bar, and that the quantity involved was no less than 151.128 packs of cigarettes that were not registered in the Register of Tobacco Product Brands, which records cigarettes that are in circulation on the domestic market, and thus caused multi-million-dollar damage to the Montenegrin budget through non-payment of customs duties, excise duties and taxes.
The SDT then announced that the Higher Court had confirmed the indictment against eight defendants - Aleksandar Mijajlović, Dejan Jokić, Zoran Žuti Đukanović, Golub Vojinović, Dragan Backović, Milenko Mićo Rabrenović, Radoje Rabrenović and Mirko Mijušković, due to the existence of reasonable suspicion that they committed the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization. In that indictment, the defendants Mijajlović, Đukanović, Rabrenović are also charged with the extended criminal offense of smuggling, and Jokić, Radoje Rabrenović and Mujušković with two extended criminal offenses of smuggling.
The prosecution documents state that Mijajlović organized a criminal group in 2019, whose members included Đukanović, as well as Dejan Jokić, Golub Vojinović, Milenko Rabrenović, Radoje Rabrenović, Mirko Mijušković and Dragan Backović, "as well as other currently unidentified persons"...
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