Hearing on inheritance disputes about the division of property of the former Yugoslavia lifetime President Josip Broz Tito was held at the First Primary Court in Belgrade.
The list of objects from Tito’s legacy included a lot of gold coins, precious stones, valuable weapons etc. There was also a famous Soviet military medal Suvorova, which had only Stalin and General Zukov, and which is worth millions, as well as stone from the moon which was given to him by the American astronauts.
Josip-Josko Broz, Tito’s grandson, believes that the inheritance hearing is pure theater of absurd that should cover the fact that Tito’s properties have been robbed. Or, as he bitterly warned, “this is a political and not a private inheritance hearing. Things that have disappeared were not taken by none of the family members but those who had access to the property, and those are the politicians. They want this to be never found out since they would be responsible for the missing items.”
“After all these years, we can only speculate. For example, the list of 3000 valuable paintings by eminent authors that Tito owned is now cut down on about 750 minor authors. When we ask where the other paintings are, we always get the same answer: ‘We took them over like this,’ “said Josko Broz.
When the vault in the National Bank of Serbia was opened 2 years ago, it seemed that the inheritance hearing, for which historians cynically claim that will last longer than Tito’s rule, is getting to the end. It was believed that the vault under the number 555 in the NBS contained Tito’s valuables.
Oliver Antic, the adviser of Serbian President and head of the committee, said that there was nothing that belongs to Tito among the things that were found, maybe only one or two things. However, it remains to be determined at the Court.
Unofficially, it was claimed that gold bars, watches, rings with initials, emblems, insignias, precious stones and others were discovered in 11 open bags.
The only visible result of the opening of the vault is that now lawyers of Aleksandar Karadjordjevic, son of King Petar II Karadjordjevic, now appeared on court and insists that the properties of their family is excluded from Tito’s inheritance hearings. They are demanding items from the vault to be returned to them as well. However, the Government of Serbia never officially confirmed its contents.
The base of the dispute between Tito’s heirs and the state for years was reduced to the question whether Tito’s property belong to family or state.
(Source: fokus.ba)
