Serbian lawmakers on Friday passed a special law clearing the way for a proposed real estate project that would be financed by an investment company linked to Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner despite widespread public opposition and legal hurdles.

After days of a heated debate and street protests by opponents of the plan to revamp of a landmark former Yugoslav military complex in central Belgrade that was partially destroyed in a NATO bombing campaign in 1999, the bill was approved with a 130-40 vote in the 250-member parliament.

Serbia’s government last year stripped the complex of its protected status and signed a 99-year-lease agreement with Kushner-linked U.S.-based Affinity Global Development. But the project stalled after Serbia’s organized crime prosecutors launched an investigation into whether documents used to remove the protection status were forged.

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