Lekino Brdo: KRIK Says Max Strategic Built an Extra Floor
According to KRIK, MS properties, owned by Max Strategic, raised a building one floor higher than its permit allows, yet city inspectors twice recorded that everything complied.
Belgrade’s city building inspectorate has twice recorded in official minutes that the building going up on Lekino Brdo in Vozdovac, built by the company MS properties, matches its building permit. The investigative outlet KRIK reported today, October 14, that the building is one floor taller than the permit allows. The investor is owned by Max Strategic, which, according to the SNS’s campaign spending reports filed with the Anti-Corruption Agency, has earned more than a million euros working for the party since December 2023.
What does the permit say, and what was built?
The building permit that MS properties received from the Vozdovac municipality provides for a basement, ground floor, two upper floors and an attic, with eight apartments in total. KRIK reports that an additional floor has been built, bringing five more apartments. On its website the company advertises the building as exclusive and says it will be ready for occupancy next year.
KRIK calculated the profit from the extra floor itself: at roughly 3,500 euros per square meter, based on real estate listings, five additional apartments bring the investor about a million euros more. Djordje Vukotic, a lawyer and consultant on building permits and legalization, does not estimate the amount, but tells KRIK the surplus construction will be the investor’s “extra profit.” Judging by the documentation and photographs KRIK has, he considers it obvious that the investor went beyond the permit.
Why did two inspections find everything in order?
Construction began in 2025. Building inspector Marija Ristic first visited the site in January 2026, after a complaint from a neighbor whose house was damaged. In her minutes she wrote that she could not claim the works on the adjacent plot caused the damage, but that the construction complied with the permit, and she attached photographs as evidence.
The second inspection took place in early June 2026. The inspector again recorded that a basement, ground floor, two upper floors and an attic had been built and that construction was within the permit, this time without photographs. KRIK, for its part, has footage from March showing a third floor already going up, and the sign at the construction site shows a building with three upper floors.
Vukotic told KRIK he does not understand how such a finding could have been recorded:
“If the claim in the minutes were true, it would mean that after the building inspector left, the investor tore down the attic, added a third floor and built the attic again.”
He adds that inspectors are not required to photograph a construction site, but that it is customary, so it is unusual that photographs were attached to the first set of minutes and not the second. “In effect, the key piece of evidence that would establish whether what was recorded in the minutes is true is missing here,” Vukotic said. The City of Belgrade’s Secretariat for Inspection, Oversight and Communication, which oversees the building inspectorate, did not answer KRIK’s question about what its finding was based on.
What does the investor say, and can the building be legalized?
Nikola Jolovic, the owner of Max Strategic, responded to KRIK in writing. He stated that MS properties is carrying out the project according to the documentation of the design firm it hired, in line with regulations and the building permit, and confirmed that once the structural work was finished the company filed a legalization request under the “Svoj na svome” law. He left the question about working with the SNS unanswered: “We do not make public information about clients, the content of business relationships or individual engagements.”
Vukotic believes the law adopted in October 2025 applies only to buildings that were already built when it was passed, so in his view the Lekino Brdo building could not be legalized.
Who is behind the investor?
MS properties was founded in 2022. According to the CompanyWall website, Max Strategic was registered on October 25, 2019 at 13 Pariska Street in Belgrade, Jolovic is its owner, Danijela Draca-Zivkovic is its director, and its main business is market research and public opinion polling. For 2025, CompanyWall lists revenue of 104,444,000 and net profit of 25,439,000, with no currency given, and 19 employees.
KRIK writes that Max Strategic did internet promotion, billboard and social media advertising for the SNS, and also ran a call center. According to the paper Danas, which KRIK cites, ahead of the December 2023 elections the company leased the Cair hall in Nis and set up a call center there.
