Company Linked to Serbian Minister’s Husband Gets State Contracts

Out of the spotlight, companies linked with Bojan Kisic secured lucrative contracts with several state companies and ministries, including a three-million-euro deal to maintain Serbia's integrated health information system. The software handles the most sensitive private information of the Serbian public health-care system. 

BIRN can reveal that since 2013, the NITES companies have been awarded at least 27 public contracts worth around 26.8 million euros in Serbia, either bidding alone or in consortiums.

Just this month, BIRN has found, NITES won three contracts worth 3.2 million euros with the Serbian Ministry of Health, including the maintenance of the health information system.

Darija Kisic Tepavcevic, however, ignored BIRN's questions about her brother's involvement in IT deals involving the Serbian public health system, saying that NITES was not involved in creating the country's current COVID-19 information system linked with her institute.

Justice Minister Nela Kuburovic told BIRN that she "is not linked in any way with the company where Bojan Kisic works, neither [is she] in a position to influence the business of a multinational company that operates around the world."

According to her, the Serbian government has procedures in place that could track and prevent corruption. 

Government-linked allies and partners win tenders

Nela Kuburovic. Photo:EPA-EFE/JUSTIN LANE

Belgrade-based NITES is part of the NITES Group, a family of companies owned by Miodrag Skrbic. Kisic serves as chief executive officer of their Czech-based NITES A.S., which won several public tenders together with the group's Serbian branch. The NITES companies operate in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, Russia and...