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To show the scope of the VMRO-DPMNE’s real estate holdings, Investigative Reporting Lab Macedonia has created an interactive map based on information supplied by the special prosecutor’s office.
The map shows the party’s 69 frozen properties across the country.
The most valuable is the White Palace, VMRO-DPMNE’s Skopje headquarters, where public real estate records show 3,816 square meters of business space on 1,240 square meters of land.
The other properties include houses, stores, apartments, lots with buildable land, lots with buildings under construction, gardens, and fields. All the properties on the map were purchased between 2009 and 2015, the period covered by the investigation, and were listed in documents from the special prosecutor’s office.
Unless the properties are linked directly to party functions, such ownership would have been illegal at the time the real estate was acquired.
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