Trump luxury hotel project on hold after official admits to forging documents [View all]
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
Move along, this is normal Trump business practice ...
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