Nenad Nešić, president of DNS, former Minister of Security of BiH and former director of JP “Roads of Republika Srpska”, and currently deputy director of Civil Protection of Republika Srpska, has pledged real estate in the name of a bail of 1.37 million KM, with which the prohibition measures against him are lifted, confirmed his lawyer Senka Nožica.
“My client mortgaged real estate,” Nožica told the RadioSarajevo portal, but did not want to reveal what exactly Nešić mortgaged.
“Nezavisne novine” did not reveal this even in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to which we addressed questions – did they ask Nešić to explain where he got the 1.37 million KM, as well as whether the leader of the DNS attached documentation about the origin of that money?
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina remained silent on these questions, to which the public also expects an answer, and we will publish the answers in case we receive them.
And if we are to believe the official (read reported) and the unofficial (unreported) data on the assets of the former Minister of Security of BiH, Nešić also had what it took to “remove” the ban and pay the million bail.
Namely, according to the research of the journalists of the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIN), Nešić and his wife have as many as 12 properties on their account, and according to the data obtained by CIN, half of them were not even registered in the property register when Nešić was supposed to sit in the ministerial chair in the Council of Ministers of BiH.
“They have 12 properties, six of which he did not declare when he submitted the statement of property status at the time he was appointed Minister of Security. According to the documents we had access to, the spouses paid for these properties with cash from their accounts, and he said in some television appearances that he did not take out loans for this, but bought them from his income,” CIN journalist Jasna Ferhatović told Nezavisne Novine. Subasic.
This summer, CIN journalists announced that Nešić spent several days in July in his luxurious 346-square-meter penthouse in Tivat, Montenegro. According to them, Nešić bought that property and two garage spaces in July 2020 for more than 625,000 KM in cash.
After that, he and his wife bought an apartment and a garage in Budva, Montenegro, and a part of a house with a yard in Sarajevo until 2022, for which they paid almost 450,000 marks.
As revealed by CIN, they also own three apartments and garages in Novi Sad, Serbia, but they could not get information on how these properties were acquired, because, as they state, competent offices in Serbia do not allow inspection of documents on the method of acquisition.
Spouses Nešić also own part of a house with land in East Sarajevo, and the total market value of those properties is, as stated by CIN, at least 1.8 million KM.
Investigating the origin of Nešić’s property, the journalists managed to discover that among the properties that he did not declare was a luxurious duplex apartment in the attic of a building in the center of Novi Sad and a 27 square meter garage, the market value of which is around 945,000 KM.
In the text “Traces on the property of Nenad Nešić”, CIN claims that he did not even register an apartment of 56 square meters in an office building, which, according to estimates, is worth more than 320,000 KM.
But the list does not end there.
They claim that Nešić has not yet registered a 98-square-meter apartment in the center of Novi Sad, which is estimated at more than half a million KM, as well as a 74-square-meter apartment and a 357,000 KM garage in Budva.
In addition, Nešić’s immediate family also owns numerous companies, and everything is spiced up by the fact that Nenad Nešić’s current income as deputy director of CZ RS is over 4,600 KM.
“Regarding his property, it should be pointed out first of all that he is an undeniably rich man who has been in various positions for a long time and is involved in numerous private businesses. However, since it is a question of property of great value that has been pledged as bail, and that in the judicial proceedings the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges several persons with accepting bribes, including him, there is certainly a possibility that the Tax Administration of the Republika Srpska, through the Department of Origin, will determine property and special tax on property determines whether it is reported or some other income”, says Damjan Ožegović from “Transparency International” for “Nezavisne”.
Whether the Tax Administration of the RS checked what Ožegović is talking about is a question to which we have not received an answer until the conclusion of this issue of “Nezavisni”.
CIN journalist Jasna Ferhatović Subašić points out that the majority of public officials abuse the data on their property declaration.
“No one checks the data they give to the institutions. In principle, it is up to them whether they will be honest or hide something, because no one controls it, and it is especially controversial, in my opinion, because no one controls the way in which they acquired the property they have,” she says.
He reminds that even at the hearings on the detention, specifically of Nešić, it could be heard that it is suspected that he bought some of the mentioned properties with illegally acquired money.
“As a citizen, I want to believe that someday the laws will come into force that will regulate that area and that will check people who enjoy the functions they have and the benefits that these functions bring”, adds Ferhatović Subašićeva for “Nezavisne”.
Let us remind you that on October 20, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina lifted Nenad Nešić’s travel ban and mandatory reporting to the state authority imposed on him due to the criminal acts he is suspected of having committed as acting director of JP “Roads of Republika Srpska”.
Nešić was arrested on December 26, 2024, then as the Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and he is suspected of laundering money, accepting bribes and abusing his official position from 2016 to 2020, when he was the head of “Roads RS”, achieving financial benefits of around one million marks. His detention was terminated on May 16, 2025 by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, reports NOISE.
