It was supposed to be a splashy and posh addition to the Belgrade skyline: a $500 million luxury hotel and residential complex, built on the damaged Defense Ministry office that was bombed by NATO jets in 1999s. Now a forged signature threatens to halt it.
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    Serbian prosecutors on May 14 announced that the cultural official in charge of the site’s historic designation had forged a key document and had been arrested. Goran Vasic, the acting director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, admitted he had fabricated an expert’s opinion.

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

    So they forged a document in order to un-protect the building site?