The total value of the gifts reported by the President of Serbia to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption exceeded 117.000 euros, and the list included luxury protocol gifts, art objects and personal gifts.
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić he received gifts worth almost 13,8 million dinars during 2025. In addition to the standard, protocol gifts that Vučić received on the occasion meetings with other statesmen, interesting items were also found - sports jerseys with Vučić's name, his portrait, and even a song dedicated to him, Nova ekonomija reports.
Corruption Prevention Agency published the list of gifts that the president of the country received during the last year, 2025. Otherwise, all public officials are obliged to report the protocol gifts they receive to the Agency.
So last year, Vučić received 130 gifts as the president of the country. Their total value was exactly 13.797.500 dinars, or about 117.500 euros. From that amount, Vučić kept one gift worth 5.000 dinars as his personal property, while all other gifts are public property.
A gift that is the personal property of Aleksandar Vučić is an icon of the Virgin Mary with gilding in a wooden frame, the value of which is 5.000 dinars. It is stated that the reason for giving the gift was a "meeting with the President of the Republic", but not who gave the gift.
In fact, with each gift, only the occasion is stated, not who the giver is.
And this long list includes a wide variety of items - from soccer jerseys with the president's surname, to icons and other religious items, to various figurines and miniatures.
For example, Vučić received a soccer jersey with the number 10 and his surname at the gala lunch for UEFA delegates on the occasion of the 49th congress of this soccer organization in Belgrade, and the value of this gift was estimated at 2.400 dinars. Also, Vučić received a gold-colored metal cross bought in Jericho and a photo of the place in Bethlehem where Jesus Christ was born. The value of this gift is 1.500 dinars, and it is stated only that the president received it by mail.
The most valuable gift on this list is a watch. Namely, on May 9 last year, Vučić received a Pobeda-80 wristwatch from the Anton Sukhanov watch factory in St. Petersburg, made in a limited edition of 80 copies for the 80th anniversary of the "Great Victory", i.e. the Day of Victory over Fascism. As stated in the gift catalog, the watch is a museum exhibit of exceptional importance.
The inscription "80 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" is engraved on the cover of the watch. The watch comes with an accompanying magnifying glass.
The estimated value of this gift is as much as eight million dinars, which is about 68.000 euros.
The second valuable gift is a leather-bound facsimile of Miroslav's Gospel in a wooden box measuring 60x36x13 centimeters, the estimated value of which is 600.000 dinars. It was stated that the gift was received on the occasion of the "reception under the President of the Republic", but no further details are known.
In third place is the figure of an Easter egg on a marble plinth. As stated, the egg is dark blue in color, with embossed details around the icons in silver and gold, 20 centimeters high, with an accompanying certificate that silver, enamel and marble were used. The gift was presented to Vučić on May 8, at a meeting with Patriarch Kirill on the occasion of the celebration of May 9 in Moscow.
The value of that gift is 400.000 dinars.
The medals from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 have a slightly lower value, 320.000 dinars, in boxes with blue plush, the flag of Serbia and the text "The Water Polo Federation of Serbia expresses its gratitude to the President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, for his contribution to the success of winning the title of three-time Olympic champion, December 2024". By the way, the reception with the president was held in December 2024, but the documents were submitted according to the protocol on January 3, 2025.
Also, 240.000 dinars is the value of the gift set in a box - a case, within which a reproduction of the "Victory Parade" picture is inserted on the inside of the box lid.
The set consists of a set of three hand-painted tin miniatures of the ensign, a leather-bound book "Vasily Tjorkin" by Alexander Tvardovsky with a bas-relief, a leather case with a postal block of the Stamp "80 years of the Great Victory" and a commemorative coin of the Central Bank of Russia, i.e. a gold coin with a nominal value of 50 rubles, a silver coin with a nominal value of three rubles, a steel coin with a nominal value of 50 rubles, Paleh box with a reproduction of the image "Triumph of the Victorious Fatherland in 1949" in which the film-chronicle "Victory Parade on June 24, 1945" is
Gifts of great value (100.000 dinars and more) are also a model of the Great Egyptian Museum in patinated brass, with a special part that says "Serbia" (100.000), a metal statuette "Kombat" with a framed reprint of the photo on which it is based, 40 cm high with a marble base (120.000), a combat gift set containing a Shpagin machine gun, a knife-bayonet, a cup and flask (190.000) and a Martini-Henry rifle with engraved silver details (150.000). There is also the coat of arms of the Republic of Serbia made of Swarovski crystals in a wooden frame (100.000), as well as a model of Registan Square in Samarkand with the accompanying certificate that it is electroplated with gold of purity 999 and high-quality enamel (120.000). A traditional Kazakh brown plush coat and hat, decorated with embroidered details in gold embroidery with fur details, can also be classified as gifts of greater value (190.000).
The remaining gifts are of lesser value. Among the cheapest, which are usually worth several thousand dinars, mostly sports gifts - jerseys and balls, but also various religious objects, various figures and sculptures.
One of the most impressive gifts that President Vučić received last year was a printed poem about him, in a wooden frame. Vučić received this gift on August 3, on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of all victims and exiles in the armed action Storm, from the author. Its estimated value is 4.000 dinars. Vučić also, during a tour of the municipality of Žitorađa, received a framed portrait of himself, in the background of which there is a flag of Serbia, with an estimated value of 8.000 dinars.
Among the gifts, there are works of art, as well as various objects that remind of the countries where they came from, such as a snake plush toy worth 6.000 dinars, which Vučić received on the occasion of the Chinese New Year. Vučić also received a drawing of himself, drawn by a child, as well as a portrait of US President Donald Trump.
Source: New Economy
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