The paper said work on the project would also start in May, without citing a source. The casino will be completed by June 2012 and the hotel by 2013, the paper said.

The road across the construction site will be closed within weeks.

Austrian investors won a 20-year license to operate a big casino at the site more than four years ago. The complex was to have opened by 2010, but construction was probably delayed because of the crisis.