Ugljesa Mrdic Bought Two Belgrade Apartments: KRIK Asks
The Kaludjerica and Zvezdara apartments are worth about 170,000 euros, and the SNS lawmaker has not answered KRIK's questions about where the money came from.
Lawmaker Ugljesa Mrdic of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) bought two apartments in Belgrade this year, and where the money came from is not publicly known, the investigative network KRIK reported in a story published on October 22. According to documents KRIK gathered, the purchases were made on July 15 and September 1, 2026, and before that Mrdic owned no property at all.
What is known about the two apartments?
The first apartment has 34 square meters and sits in Kaludjerica, valued at about 70,000 euros. The second is in Zvezdara, has 26 square meters and is appraised at 100,000 euros. Together they are worth about 170,000 euros, based on an estimate from a real estate agency hired by KRIK. Mrdic bought one apartment on July 15 and the other on September 1, though KRIK does not specify which was bought on which date.
Neither apartment carries a mortgage, which KRIK reads as a sign that Mrdic did not take out a loan. Data from the Anti-Corruption Agency, according to the same story, shows that before the purchases he had no property he could have sold. The asset declaration he filed lists savings, but without an amount.
How does that compare with Mrdic’s income?
From various sources Mrdic earns about 220,000 dinars a month, or roughly 1,900 euros. Among them, he receives 95,000 dinars a month for legal advice at the Institute for Roads and 43,500 dinars as a lecturer at the Belgrade Academy of Business and Arts Applied Studies.
By KRIK’s calculation, 170,000 euros would take about 90 such monthly paychecks, more than seven years, if he put the full amount into savings every month. Since 2018 he has chaired the supervisory board of the joint-stock company Putnik, and it is not known how much he is paid for that post.
How did Mrdic respond to the questions?
KRIK journalists called Mrdic to check how he financed the purchases. In a phone call he told them he was entering an event and asked them to send the questions by message. After that he stopped answering calls, and he did not reply to questions sent to his phone number and to the email addresses available. As of publication, then, his answer does not exist, and KRIK’s claims about the source of the money stand without his side of the story.
Why does KRIK mention the finance minister’s statement?
KRIK ties its story to a recent remark by Finance Minister Sinisa Mali, which, according to the outlet, provoked public anger last week. “If you worked laboriously and bought two or three apartments for your children, to leave to them for the future,” Mali said. KRIK writes that Mrdic fits the profile of the person the minister described.
Who is Ugljesa Mrdic?
Mrdic has been an SNS member since the party was founded in 2008 and a lawmaker since 2020. He sits in thirtieth place on the party’s electoral list. The wider public came to know him on the last day of October 2025, when he pitched a tent in front of the National Assembly and went on a hunger strike for 11 days. He is also the sponsor of judicial laws known as the Mrdic Laws.
As of this story, KRIK’s material contains no reaction from the party to the claims about the apartments. Mrdic or the SNS can answer the questions about the source of the money at any time, and until they do, the only sources on the purchases remain the documents and estimates gathered by KRIK.
