"Due to a clerical error, the Hungarian National Asset Manager has sold a Soviet military cemetery in Kiskorpád, Somogy county, south-west Hungary to an entrepreneur, Népszabadság reports today.National Asset Manager spokesman Gábor Száraz told the daily on Wednesday that the organisation sold a 8,777m² plot of land in 2006 because the cemetery did not have a land office registration number, but officially belongs to the now sold agricultural plot.
Száraz said the identity of the individual responsible for the mistake is unknown, but pledged that the Asset Manager and the Foreign Ministry will contact the owner without delay to reach agreement on the recovery of the cemetery to the state.
When news of the sale reached Moscow, the Russian Defence Ministry and the Foreign Ministry immediately requested clarification of the matter. Several Russian embassy staff visited the village to view the cemetery on Wednesday."
Source: Hungary Around the Clock.
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31.01.2008