Everything she says is accurate except id like to add: there were rumors going around since 2023 about this but nothing was confirmed. And in 2024 the government QUIETLY changed the law about protected lands so they could sell it off to Kushner. It’s all pieces of the same puzzle that made the situation explode recently
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The project involves a “network of shady individuals and companies,“ according to an investigative report.
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Jared Kushner’s efforts to negotiate an end to the Iran War are not going well. But he is only moonlighting as one of the Trump administration’s top diplomats. Kushner is also having problems at his day job as the founder of Affinity Partners, a private equity fund bankrolled by Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments.
Along with his wife Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Trump, Kushner is developing a multibillion-dollar resort on Sazan Island in Albania and nearby coastline. In an interview with the David Senra podcast published Sunday, Ivanka Trump described the project dreamily:
It’s an unbelievable, beautiful, 1,400-hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean. We were on a friend’s boat and we stopped for a swim. Effectively, that’s how we found it. We swam to the island, we went on a hike, barefoot all the way up to the top, and we were just captivated, and it stayed with us ever since. And over the course of many years, we developed the opportunity to help realize its potential and transform it, but with a lot of restraint and care because the land is so beautiful that, really, the architecture has to be fully integrated into it, almost rise from it.
She also said the project is “the culmination of all of my experience in real estate, all of my travel, a lot of reflection on how I want to live, how I think people increasingly want to live.”
But the reality of the massive project, which includes 10,000 hotel rooms and is located in one of Europe’s most environmentally sensitive areas, is a lot messier. In 2024, the Albanian government changed the law to allow the area, which was previously part of a protected national park, to be developed. After Trump’s election in November 2024, the Albanian government granted Atlantic Incubation Partners, an LLC linked to Kushner, “strategic investor“ status, clearing the way for permits.
Kushner’s LLC was granted that status “just weeks before the new US president’s inauguration, even without a business plan or feasibility study for the construction of a luxury resort on an uninhabited island once used by the army for shooting practice.”
On Monday, Albania’s Special Structure Against Corruption and Organized Crime, known as SPAK, confirmed it was investigating Kushner’s project. The investigation will probe the changes to the land’s protected status and how Kushner-controlled entities obtained rights.
An investigative report by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network found that the project involved a “network of shady individuals and companies“ including “a businessman accused of links to the Italian mafia, a former judge who resigned due to the vetting process, the daughter of a lawyer accused of forgery, the company of a murdered businessman and individuals linked to one of Albania’s biggest oligarchs, Shefqet Kastrati.”
The Vjosa-Narta area in Albania is a crucial stopover site for migrating birds between Europe and Africa and is one of the most important we
Hi everyone,
Not my usual content but I thought I’d try and bring some awareness to an important environmental issue.
The Vjosa-Narta Lagoon is home to thousands of migratory birds like the Dalmatian Pelican and Flamingo, while they journey between Europe and Africa. This region of wetlands Albania is one of the very few undisturbed areas left in the entire Mediterranean. It’s now being threatened by foreign investors (such as Jared Kushner…..) looking to build luxury resorts, villas and even an airport on what was supposed to be protected land. These developments seem to have been rammed through with little to no public input or environmental impact assessments.
The people of Albania are protesting as well as they can, but they could use your help spreading awareness. The more eyes and public pressure we get on the situation the better.
The link above includes a template to both the European Commission and Prime Minister Edi Rama.
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