Grahovo Under Siege as Montenegro Police Intensify Search for Ljubo Milović

Montenegrin police spent the night and continued into the day searching for Ljubo Milović, an internationally wanted fugitive described as a member of a high-risk organized crime group. The operation focused on the Grahovac 1858 restaurant and hotel, where police carried out a raid and searched the premises.

Authorities seized three luxury vehicles during the operation. The vehicles will undergo further checks and forensic examination, according to a police statement. After inspections found irregularities in the businesses, officials from the Tax Administration sealed the hotel and restaurant.

The police said they would continue their activities with increased intensity, using all available personnel and operational resources. Their stated aim is to locate and arrest people wanted nationally and internationally, bring them to justice, and identify and prosecute anyone helping them hide, move or remain at large.

Milović, a former Montenegrin police officer, has been described as a member of the Kavač criminal clan and a close associate of its leader, Radoje Zvicer. He has been on the run since July 2022. Prosecutors in Serbia accuse him and his group of laundering more than six million euros allegedly earned through cocaine smuggling, organizing cocaine shipments from Ecuador to Europe between 2019 and August 2022, and obtaining confidential information from police investigations and the Security Intelligence Agency.

His trial in Serbia began in October 2023 before the Special Court in Belgrade. Montenegro has also convicted him in absentia in two cases during June and July 2026. A Podgorica court sentenced him to 19 years in prison in a major case involving the Kavač clan, and to four years in a separate case involving the disclosure of official information and participation in preparations to kill rival clan leader Jovica Vukotić. In August 2026, Montenegro's Interior Ministry offered 500,000 euros for information leading to his location and arrest.

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The Police Administration is continuing its activities with increased intensity, using all available police capacities and operational resources, searching specific locations with the clear aim of locating and finding nationally and internationally wanted persons and bringing them to justice, as well as identifying and prosecuting all persons who help them hide, move or remain at large.