Caletov's Son: 'I No Longer Depend on My Father'

Nikola Keljanovic, publicly known as Caletov’s Son, posted an Instagram clip of his own hand on the wheel. Around his wrist sits a gold Rolex valued at roughly 26,000 euros, and the car the shot was taken from is estimated at around 220,000 euros. Under the post, the same question piled up that has followed him for years: where does the money come from.

This time he answered it himself, without dodging. In a statement carried by domestic media, he said he cut ties with his father’s wallet long ago.

I don’t depend on my father anymore. I earn on my own, I cash in nicely from that site of mine, I have since I was 18.

The site he means is called nerad tips. The business is tipster work: analytics and statistical calculations used to build predictions for betting pairs, which are then sold to followers. Keljanovic claims he runs the strongest betting organization in the region.

That figure, since he was 18, matters because his name has never appeared in public on its own, always alongside his father’s. His father runs a construction company in Germany, and that is where the nickname everyone knows him by came from. He is now denying it publicly for the first time with actual numbers instead of a pose.

What Do His Parents Criticize?

He described his relationship with his family as intact but cold. They stay in touch and there is no fighting, he says, but the complaints center on everything the public sees.

I talk to my parents, I’m not on bad terms with them, but they criticize my lifestyle, being in the media…

The sharpest part of that story concerns his mother. Keljanovic claims she avoids using his name whenever someone asks if he is her son, and that word of it hasn’t even reached his father’s circle in Germany yet.

Whenever someone asks my mother if I’m her son, she says I’m not, and it hasn’t even reached my dad’s colleagues in Germany yet.

Failed Third Grade, Finished Fourth as an External Student

He also confirmed that he failed the third year of high school. He finished the fourth year afterward as an external student. He talked about it through the story of the year he repeated, while, as he tells it, he was already earning money.

I was already earning money then, I drove a BMW 5 Series. There was this old lady who taught English, she really couldn’t stand me. There were two vocational subjects I just couldn’t pass, and I failed the year. I enrolled in third grade again and felt like an idiot sitting at a desk with a younger generation. Later I finished fourth grade as an external student. Honestly, I regret ever picking up a book. If I’d known I’d end up earning like this, I wouldn’t have even gone to school. I don’t need school, high school especially.

By his own judgment, school never did him any good. Cars did, and they remain the most visible part of his biography.

What’s Known About His Cars So Far

The latest shot with his hand on the wheel isn’t the first time a vehicle has made headlines for him. The public has kept track of a few such moments so far:

• a gold Porsche he crashed
• a BMW 5 Series he drove back in high school
• the roughly 220,000-euro car from his latest photo

Alongside them is the 26,000-euro gold Rolex, which was the actual focus of the post. The hand on the wheel is a shot that shows neither his face nor his destination, only the price tag.

What remains unverifiable in the whole story is the earnings figure itself. Tipster work has no public balance sheet, income isn’t disclosed to followers, and there is no document showing what nerad tips actually brings in. All that’s left is his word, the same word his parents, by his own account, don’t accept.

Caletov’s Son, by all appearances, is still best known by the nickname he is trying to shake off.