Belgrade Mayor Says He Has No Property in Bulgaria

Belgrade Mayor Sini?a Mali has refuted claims that he owns a number of apartments at the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria.

Reports emerged on Monday in an investigation by Serbia-based network KRIK, done jointly with Bulgaria's Bivol, of property deals made by Mali between 2012 and 2013 on behalf of two Virgin Islands-registered companies of which he is the legal representatives.

“The controversial report does not specify any data that has to do with my role as a mayor, but only gives information from my professional life at a time when I used to work privately,” Balkan Insight quotes the mayor as saying in a statement.

In his words, KRIK's findings referred to a time when he worked as a consultant in a private company, and not for the government as the investigation alleges (he was advisor to now PM Aleksandar Vu?i? in 2012-2013, the latter taking at the time  other government positions).

But a KRIK editor told BIRN documents which his organization has show Mali is still selling apartments at the Black Sea.

We need your support so Novinite.com can keep delivering news and information about Bulgaria! Thank you!