diff --git a/muranoclient/client.py b/muranoclient/client.py
index d38702e5..485ed898 100644
--- a/muranoclient/client.py
+++ b/muranoclient/client.py
@@ -11,10 +11,11 @@
 #    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
 #    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
 #    under the License.
-from muranoclient.common import utils
+from oslo_utils import importutils
 
 
 def Client(version, *args, **kwargs):
-    module = utils.import_versioned_module(version, 'client')
+    module = importutils.import_versioned_module('muranoclient',
+                                                 version, 'client')
     client_class = getattr(module, 'Client')
     return client_class(*args, **kwargs)
diff --git a/muranoclient/common/utils.py b/muranoclient/common/utils.py
index 739fa034..34abde6c 100644
--- a/muranoclient/common/utils.py
+++ b/muranoclient/common/utils.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import zipfile
 from oslo_log import log as logging
 from oslo_serialization import jsonutils
 from oslo_utils import encodeutils
-from oslo_utils import importutils
+
 import prettytable
 import requests
 import six
@@ -165,13 +165,6 @@ def env(*vars, **kwargs):
     return kwargs.get('default', '')
 
 
-def import_versioned_module(version, submodule=None):
-    module = 'muranoclient.v%s' % version
-    if submodule:
-        module = '.'.join((module, submodule))
-    return importutils.import_module(module)
-
-
 def exit(msg=''):
     if msg:
         print(encodeutils.safe_encode(msg), file=sys.stderr)
diff --git a/muranoclient/shell.py b/muranoclient/shell.py
index 5ae030f3..720f74b8 100644
--- a/muranoclient/shell.py
+++ b/muranoclient/shell.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ from oslo_log import handlers
 from oslo_log import log as logging
 from oslo_log import versionutils
 from oslo_utils import encodeutils
+from oslo_utils import importutils
 import six
 import six.moves.urllib.parse as urlparse
 
@@ -194,7 +195,8 @@ class MuranoShell(object):
 
         self.subcommands = {}
         subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(metavar='<subcommand>')
-        submodule = utils.import_versioned_module(version, 'shell')
+        submodule = importutils.import_versioned_module('muranoclient',
+                                                        version, 'shell')
         self._find_actions(subparsers, submodule)
         self._find_actions(subparsers, self)