Trump luxury hotel project on hold after official admits to forging documents

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Independent

A $500m project to build Donald Trump’s first Trump International Hotel in Europe could be in jeopardy, after a Serbian official admitted to forging a document to advance the development, according to a report.

The president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who served in his first administration alongside his wife, Ivanka Trump, is seeking permission via his Miami-based property company, Affinity Partners, to build on a site in Belgrade where the remains of the old Yugoslav Ministry of Defense headquarters still stand.

The compound was badly damaged in a U.S.-led Nato bombing campaign during the Kosovo War of 1999.
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Goran Vasic, former director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, has been arrested after admitting to inventing an expert opinion in order to justify the decision to strip the site of its protected status, which shielded it from demolition.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-hotel-belgrade-serbia-forgery-b2751435.html

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Move along, this is normal Trump business practice ...

[gab13by13]

1. See, Krasnov does have a strategy for his tariffs,

He puts tariffs on countries and the countries that give him a Trump Tower and sign up for Musk's StarLink get carve outs.

[Lovie777]

2. WTF..............

[underpants]

3. Was it signed by Ron Vara, John Barron, or Epstein's Mother?

[louis-t]

4. You mean there was fraud, lying and cheating?

I'm shocked.

[boonecreek]

5. Trump relies on corrupt government officials to get things done?

I'll try to contain my amazement.

[70sEraVet]

6. Strange, the article doesn't mention who PAID the guy to commit forgery?

I guess when you're a Crime Lord, they let you do it.

[republianmushroom]

7. As crooked as his father-in-law.

[marble falls]

8. And at a time there are huge anti-government demonstrations going on.

[ultralite001]

9. Golly gosh...

I didn’t know they had ChatGPT in Serbia…

🤣🤣🤣

[Ford_Prefect]

10. Krasnov and Kushner are building an empire for escaping US justice.

[WestMichRad]

11. Surprising they admitted it

… when they could’ve blamed the Deep State.

[FakeNoose]

12. Archived link ... no paywall ...

Link: https://archive.ph/rWrrr

Here's an interesting passage from the story in the OP:

The legal protection was removed on November 14 last year, less than two weeks after Trump won the U.S. presidential election, allowing the project to move ahead.

“Vasic forged a proposal for a decision to revoke the status of cultural property,” the Office of the Prosecutor for Organized Crime said in a statement.

Affinity Partners has responded with a statement of its own denying any involvement or knowledge of the affair.

“Today we learned from media reports that a former Serbian government official with no connection to our firm allegedly falsified documents related to the landmark designation of the Belgrade Square project,” it read.

- more at link -

Maybe this Belgrade hotel project was included in the $2 billion investment that FSB made at the end of Chump's first term? Allegedly the Saudi money went to Kushner's real estate development firm, but I'm sure the tacit understanding was that Chump himself would also benefit.