Agency Reviews Vesic's Assets, Flat Missing From Cadastre

Serbia’s Anti-Corruption Agency has opened an extraordinary review of the assets held by Goran Vesic, the former minister of construction, transport and infrastructure and one of the defendants in the collapse of the canopy at the Novi Sad railway station. The news became public on August 12, 2026, based on documentation obtained by KRIK, and the Agency did not specify exactly what prompted the check.

Asked why the review was launched, the institution answered only in general terms, without pointing to a specific trigger:

“The reason for opening the extraordinary review, which in this particular case applies to the reports submitted by Goran Vesic, former minister of construction, transport and infrastructure, is connected to the circumstances and events at that time.”

The review, in other words, does not concern a single disclosure but the reports Vesic filed throughout his time in public office.

What Can the Agency Investigate?

The Agency can open an extraordinary review whenever it suspects that a public official failed to report accurate information about assets and income, according to the institution. Unlike the criminal proceedings already under way against Vesic, this is a separate track: the subject is not the disaster or the damage to the budget, but whether what the official wrote in his disclosure matches what public registries actually show.

That is exactly where the question that drew attention to Vesic’s asset disclosure begins.

A 112 Square Meter Apartment the Cadastre Does Not Recognize

In his most recent asset disclosure, published on the Agency’s website in March 2025, Vesic declared a three room apartment of 112 square meters, listed as inherited. The problem is that no property of that size is registered in the cadastre under his name, so the public records do not even show where the apartment is located.

Over the past year, however, another part of his property did change. Vesic became the owner of an apartment in Vracar that had until then belonged to his brother, Zoran, a property now estimated to be worth more than half a million euros.

From the Canopy Collapse to House Arrest

Vesic was serving as minister of construction, transport and infrastructure on November 1, 2024, when the canopy at the Novi Sad railway station collapsed and killed 16 people. He was among the first to claim that the canopy had not been part of the reconstruction, a claim that soon turned out to be false. We have written before about his denial of responsibility for that disaster.

He resigned a few days later, saying he was stepping down as a responsible man but did not accept the guilt:

“I cannot accept guilt for the deaths of these people, because neither I nor the people who work with me carry even a trace of responsibility for the tragedy that happened.”

He was arrested in late November that year and an investigation was opened against him. After several reversals he was eventually indicted, and the trial has still not begun. The indictment charges him and the other defendants with a serious offense against general safety, alleging that they allowed the railway station building to be used while construction work was still under way there.

In August 2025, the Prosecution for Organized Crime also opened an investigation into Vesic. He and 13 other suspects, including former construction minister Tomislav Momirovic, are accused of financial malfeasance during the reconstruction of the Novi Sad to Kelebija railway line that cost the budget $115 million. That investigation has already run for a year, and prosecutors say they cannot close it because police have not been responding to their requests.

Vesic is currently under house arrest. Guilt has not been established by a final verdict in any of these proceedings, and the Anti-Corruption Agency’s review is the first process to deal solely with his property.