Category: Money and deals
Period: from 26 May 2017
Outcome: No one investigated (as of 26 Aug 2025)
In 2024, the Higher Court in Vranje issued a final ruling ordering the City of Vranje to repay €248,989.50 in EU funds for an access road in the Free Zone, because the city had artificially split the public procurement. According to the Vranje News portal, the work was carried out by the company of SNS official Vladimir Mandić. According to Radar, he officially owns only that one company, which has modest revenues, yet he owns dozens of properties. One city account has been frozen because of the ruling, and according to the Nova.rs portal, there was no response to an MP's call for an investigation.
On 26 May 2017, the City of Vranje signed an EU-funded grant contract to build an access road in the Free Zone. According to the Vranje News portal, the works were carried out by a Belgrade company belonging to Vladimir Mandić, and Progressive Party officials and city leaders posed for photos with him when the works began in May 2018.
An on-site inspection in December 2018 uncovered irregularities; on 4 September 2019, the Republic terminated the contract and ordered the city to return €248,989.50 in pre-financing.
The Higher Court in Vranje ordered the city to repay €248,989.50 to the Republic „as unjust enrichment“; the ruling became final on 21 March 2024. The court found that the city had artificially split the public procurement for the works into two procedures and had not submitted the requested documentation.
According to the Vranje News portal, one city account at the Treasury Administration has as a result been continuously frozen for 40.2 million dinars since 30 June 2025. Slobodan Petrović, an MP from Vranje, called in August 2025 for an investigation and for the European Public Prosecutor's Office to be involved; according to Nova.rs, there was no response.
According to the Nova.rs portal, Mandić is also linked to T&M Group Solutions, a company founded in 2022 that has won more than 50 contracts paid from the budget, among them cleaning of health facilities for the Republic Health Insurance Fund (RFZO) worth 4.8 billion dinars, a 780 million dinar contract with the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund and security services for the City of Belgrade.
According to Radar, the company's co-owner is former handball player Dane Šijan; Mandić is not formally its owner.
According to Radar, Mandić officially owns only one company, Manko plus, whose revenues in 2025 were around €430,000, and it does not appear on the Public Procurement Portal among companies that win state contracts. At the same time, according to the Real Estate Cadastre, he owns 49 flats, plots and buildings in the Savski Venac municipality alone, a flat in Novi Sad, and 23 plots and two buildings in Belegiš and Surduk.
In June 2026, Nova.rs reported that he and his wife own 14 plots in Belegiš. As far as is known, Mandić has not publicly responded to these claims.