The prosecution requests detention for Aco Đukanović due to the risk of flight

The Basic State Prosecutor's Office (ODT) in Nikšić has proposed that Aco Đukanović, a businessman and brother of former President and Prime Minister of Montenegro Milo Đukanović, be placed in custody due to the risk of flight.

"The state prosecutor at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Nikšić, after the hearing, issued a decision on detention and submitted a proposal for the detention of A. Đ. due to reasonable suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of unauthorized possession and carrying of weapons and explosives. Detention was proposed due to the risk of escape. There is reasonable suspicion that A. Đ. was illegally holding weapons and ammunition in his house in Nikšić," the ODT statement states.

Djukanovic was questioned at the ODT yesterday and ordered to be detained. His defense attorney Nikola Martinovic told reporters last night that Aco Djukanovic was arrested and detained by police at 2:30 a.m. on the night between Friday and Saturday. Djukanovic was arrested after police found weapons during a search of his house in Niksic. Martinovic said that some of the weapons found during the search of Aco's properties were found to be inscribed and belonged to his brother Milo.

Regarding the ammunition found at Đukanović's house, lawyer Martinović said that it was most likely forgotten by officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) and the National Security Agency (ANB), who were guarding Milo Đukanović. He said the same about the bulletproof vests found in Đukanović's house in the Rastoci neighborhood.