Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, intends to build a large hotel complex in Belgrade on the site of the former General Staff of the Yugoslav Army. However, a document required for construction has been falsified. Has the president's family accepted local corruption for its own benefit?

The project is "on the brink of failure," writes the German magazine Der Spiegel.

"In fact, it seems as if the project had already been approved, despite protests from the Serbian population. But now it turns out that the documents relating to the construction have been forged. The forgery itself is not interesting – in Serbia, which is mired in corruption, construction projects that do not comply with regulations are not uncommon. Rather, the question arises: could the Trump family have at least assumed that such a prestigious facility in this country would hardly be possible without corruption? Did Trump perhaps deliberately want to take advantage of dubious local practices?" the publication notes.

The author of the article also recalls the reasons why this particular building is important—it is a historic site that "still symbolizes an open wound in the center of Belgrade today" because it recalls NATO's 1999 air campaign against the regime of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. | BGNES