The construction company "Djimi Komerc", whose director is known for his open support for the SNS, invoiced the NIS company Naftagas for 70 percent of the value of the two-year contract in nine months. According to BIRN sources, more working hours were written in the logs than the machines worked
BIRN states that "Djimi Komerc" signed a 130 million dinars contract with Naftagas in January 2026 without VAT for the hiring of work machines and transport, and that by September it had invoiced almost 92 million dinars. In several daily records that BIRN had access to, it says 21 or 22 working hours, and on March 31, 2026, 24 hours were invoiced.
The worker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says that he was present when "the machines did almost nothing, and they wrote for five hours" and that he received an order from the company to write for at least five hours, and that the real working day is six to seven hours and that more than 12 is not possible.
A source familiar with the company's operations claims that the goal was to "extract as much money as possible until NIS is sold."
Samardzija, his daughter, who formally took over his share in August, and NIS did not respond to BIRN's questions. Božo Drašković, a former member of the Board of the Anti-Corruption Agency, assessed that this is a "classic example of an alliance" between businessmen and the ruling party, noting that this is how "grey money" is generated.
Ahead of the large student protest on March 15, 2025, after the then-president Aleksandar Vučić's statement that he expected "great violence", SNS supporters brought excavators and tractors in front of "Ćaciland", a camp in Pionirski Park. Among them were excavators from "Djimi Komerc", and the company's workers were hired to deliver them to Belgrade, claims BIRN. S
According to BIRN, amardžija has previously led employees to SNS gatherings and wore the "I'm a boy" T-shirt, and the company's trucks were plastered with "Serbia is winning" stickers.
BIRN also mentions a dispute with co-owner Ljiljana Teslić: she reported Samardžija to the police due to death threats on September 25, 2025 and January 21, 2026, and her lawyer claims in a letter to the Department of Internal Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that he, "with the support of SNS representatives," is trying to remove her from the company. The police filed a criminal complaint, but the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Sombor rejected it in April 2026, because prosecutor Predrag Ivanišević assessed that there was no act of endangering security, since the threat was uttered in a dispute over the purchase of land.
Teslić refused to comment.
BIRN's source states that Samardžija's approach to the SNS was sponsored by Zoran Rus, the former commissioner of the SNS for Sombor, today the acting director of the Safety and Health Administration at the Ministry of Labour.
Contracts with the state and state-owned companies are paid for with money that belongs to the public, so the question is whether the work actually performed is invoiced. If it were confirmed that the hours were increased, it would be a question of abuse and potential overflow of money, which Drašković alleges, but BIRN did not determine who the money went to. For the voters, it is the issue of the relationship between businessmen and the ruling party ahead of the October 25 election, and for the institutions, the question is whether someone will check the minutes and invoices.
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