Tabakovic lists Vracar flat, agency to review
The Anti-Corruption Agency announced a preliminary check for a violation of the law after the central bank governor requested a correction on October 5 and added a 214 square meter flat.
Serbia’s Anti-Corruption Agency has announced a preliminary check into whether National Bank of Serbia (NBS) governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic violated the Law on Prevention of Corruption. The trigger is her request of October 5, 2026 to correct her asset declaration, in which she added a five-room flat of 214 square meters and a parking space in Vracar. The portal Nova.rs published the Agency’s reply on October 7.
What was entered in the asset declaration
On the Agency’s website, the flat and the parking space now carry a note that they were entered “per request for correction of October 5, 2026,” with purchase listed as the basis of acquisition. The parking space is recorded at 12.50 square meters, though media reports also mention a rounded 13. Before the correction, Nova.rs reports, the same list showed a flat of 134 square meters.
The same declaration states that the assets were reported on August 27, 2024, which does not match the date of the correction. Other details were not changed: the governor owns a 2021 Land Rover, has no bank savings, and earns a monthly salary of 752,363 dinars.
The flat was not in the declaration on October 5 either, the same day Nova.rs sent Tabakovic questions: when she bought the flat and parking space, how much she paid, and why she did not report the property to the Agency. The portal says it received no answers. Its questions to the Agency went out on Friday, October 2.
What did the Agency say?
In its reply, the Agency recalled that an official reports a significant change in assets through an extraordinary report, with the status as of December 31 of the current year, and no later than May 15 of the following year, when the deadline for the annual tax return expires. A change counts as significant if it exceeds the average annual salary in Serbia or alters the structure of the assets. The reply states:
Jorgovanka Tabakovic has, in accordance with the Law on General Administrative Procedure, sent the Agency a request for correction of data from the Reports she submitted to the Agency.
The Agency also said it would carry out a preliminary check of whether the conditions for a violation of the provisions of the Law on Prevention of Corruption by Tabakovic may have been met. The check has only been announced, and its outcome is not known.
What does the law say about unreported assets?
The penal provision of the Law on Prevention of Corruption reads:
A public official who, contrary to the provisions of this law, fails to report assets and income to the Agency or provides false data on assets and income, with the intent to conceal data on assets and income, shall be punished by imprisonment from six months to five years.
The provision requires intent to conceal the data. Whether there was any in this case cannot be concluded from what has been published, and the Agency has yet to establish the facts.
Earlier reports on Tabakovic’s flats
Nova.rs and N1 recall that BIRN previously reported on a flat of 144 square meters. According to that reporting, Tabakovic signed a contract to buy out part of the flat with the public company PTT Serbia on May 30, 2000, while she was minister for economic and ownership transformation in the government of Mirko Marjanovic. The contract gave her 94 square meters, or 65 percent of the flat, for 8,822.6 German marks. For the remaining 35 percent, worth 92,170 marks, she had 40 years to pay, and BIRN says she paid no installments and that Telekom Srbija took over the obligation three months after she became governor. According to the same source, the property was later owned by her children.
