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Albanian prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for more than a dozen businessmen for drug trafficking and money laundering, including one who had previously owned land in the area to be developed by Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump.
Albanian anti-graft prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for 20 businessmen they said were involved in international drug smuggling and money laundering. Billions of euros are suspected of having been funnelled to major construction projects along the Adriatic coast and in the Albanian capital.
Among the targeted businessmen is Artur Shehu, a dual US-Albanian citizen living in Miami. Shehu in 2025 sold land near the nature reserve where the flamingos nest to Albania Land Development, a company linked to the Kushner project. That deal came under scrutiny by the anti-graft prosecutors, who froze €128mn worth of payments pending the investigation.
“There is a lot of interest to kill this project . . . because of Trump,” he said. “If it were not Jared Kushner . . . nobody would give a shit about flamingos, about Albania, about nothing. It’s the whole hate against Trump that creates all this scrutiny.”
He said he was confident that the coastal development plans would go forward despite the protests.
“The important part is that the investors are not criminals and they are not [involved in] money laundering,” Rama said. “They are big investors. It’s a historical chance for Albania.”
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