Six former executives of the Genex company administration were arrested for an alleged abuse of office Wednesday.
          Former director Milorad Savicevic, former general directors of Generaleksport Petar Novakovic and Ivica Lukic, director of the Privatization Agency’s legal center Ljiljana Mladjan, former director of the Kopaonik tourist agency Nebojsa Premovic, and general director of Internacional CG Vladimir Gajic were arrested in the raid.

          They are suspected of abusing their positions and incurring damages worth some EUR 20mn to the company budget.

          According to a police statement, the executives are suspected of illegally acquiring 1.2 hectares of land and selling the property without a tender to the consortium Neimar V, Kemoimpeks and Ivra in 2004.

          On this property, buildings totaling 25,000 square meters were constructed.

          The executives are also suspected of other illegal use of company funds and allowing free use of tourist services in several hotels at the Kopaonik mountain resort, which cost the Internacional CG company some EUR 55,000.

          All of the suspects are currently in police custody.

                         Source: B92

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          Serbian Minister of Infrastructure Velimir Ilic at a press conference held at the Serbian government that this Ministry continued the work started by the previous government which has so far made 1,000 facilities and several thousand apartments from various programmes and paved around 3,000 kilometres of road with asphalt.

          Ilic said that great attention has been paid to reconstruction of roads in mountainous regions and gave the example of the Zlatibor-Kokin Brod road, leading to Kopaonik, and construction of infrastructure on Stara Planina mountain.

          He said that many local roads have been reconstructed in the Raska district, as well as in eastern Serbia where infrastructure has been neglected for years.

          He recalled that the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development approved two credit lines worth €140 million, intended for reconstruction of rail infrastructure and motor pool.

          There are currently 98,000 tourists in Serbia, up about two percent on the same time last year, official data shows.
          The Serbian Tourist Board (TOS) report claims that of that number, some 30,000 are unregistered and staying in private accommodation.
It adds that the most popular place is Sokobanja spa with 18,000 visitors, of which 5,500 are unregistered.
          Zlatibor mountain resort is the second with over 12,000 tourists ( 4,500 unregistered), then Vrnjačka spa with almost 10,000 (3,000 unregistered), and Kopaonik/Brzeće with around 1500 (320 unregistered).
          According to TOS, Zlatibor is the most popular destination among foreign tourists and those from the former Yugoslav republics, with 619 guests currently staying there.

Source: B92

          This winter season, that will be characterized with the lack of snow, started 25 december 2006, lasted 115 days until 17. April 2007.

          Kopaonik gained two more four-chair lifts worth 7.8 million euros. Duboka II ceremoniously started working on 8 January 2007, while work of  Duboka I was late more that three months and officially since 8 match 2007 is in function. During summer of 2006 Krcmar was cleaned from cluster bombs and was opened for skiers on 30 January, after more than 8 years since last ride. Struga, 14 years after its installation still doesn’t work, owing to lack of snow and technical problems. It was announced that during winter two more ski lifts will be built, one from Kosovo side and one from Vikend settlement for next season.

          Regulation and arrangement of ski tracks was better than last years even thought it is still far from good and normal. Every year more foreign tourists are visiting this mountain. Kopaonik visited large number of tourists from England , than Hungary , Macedonia , France and Russia …

          This year price of ski pass was higher than last years, approximately for 20%. Ski pass for first week was for free while in last three weeks it was cheaper for 50%. Foreign visitors paid for ski pass 30% cheaper than local residents, even when it was about paying for children ski pass.

          Do to human negligence (care) fire braked out in house at the top of “Pancic expres” .

          At Duboka I, Gobelja relej and Pancic was held several contests in skiing and snowboarding, several had international character.

          InfoKOP site begun with work on 1 November 2006 and in five months had 319 754 visits (1/6 in English version), 2 886 pictures were placed, thereof 627 pictures are from visitors, 312 articles were announced (93 on English version), we had 1454 impressions and 901 comment in news, 2 500 messages at forum, thereof 1 072 on foreign languages. In cooperation with Jat apartments and Ski bife Jaram we placed first two web cams at Kopaonik, in action for lower prices of ski pass we gathered 1 500 signatures that were forwarded to JP “Skijalista Srbije” but without no replay.

          We would like to take this opportunity to thanks all visitors that visited our site and participated actively in its creation. This big number of visitors and trust that we gained obligate us to be better in future.

          Stay with InfoKOP and in the next period because the site will present you what Kopaonik has to offer you in summer period.