Jared Kushner's Albanian Resort Faces a Corruption Probe and Mass Protests

[riversedge]

Source: motherjones.com



The project involves a “network of shady individuals and companies,“ according to an investigative report.

Judd Legum 3 hours ago


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:

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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.”...................

Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/jared-kushner-albanian-resort-corruption-probe-mass-protests-environmental-harms-albania-edi-rama/

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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.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2026-06-03T20:11:59.281Z

[riversedge]

1. ALBANIA -- Seems like it should be a bigger deal that Ivanka Trump & Kushner's luxury resort project is being massively p

The Tennessee Holler‬
‪@thetnholler.bsky.social‬
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ALBANIA — Seems like it should be a bigger deal that Ivanka Trump & Kushner’s luxury resort project is being massively protested, with the people demanding the PM’s resignation and firebombing homes over the corruption of their project partners.🤷🏼

ALBANIA — Seems like it should be a bigger deal that Ivanka Trump & Kushner’s luxury resort project is being massively protested, with the people demanding the PM’s resignation and firebombing homes over the corruption of their project partners.🤷🏼

The Trump grift is endless.

— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2026-06-02T13:57:20.941Z

[SergeStorms]

4. Too bad they didn't "stop for a swim".....

on Snake Island off the coast of Brazil.

I hear it's lovely there any time of the year.

[agingdem]

6. Trump and his family are the very definition of obscene...

crude/vulgar/offensive/profane/indecent/amoral…Ivanka and Jared should consider fleeing to a country with no extradition treaty…

[brakester]

17. How about fleeing to

a planet light years away?

Earth is not safe with this invasive species inhabiting it!

[brakester]

16. What a

clueless husk of a human being she is!

Integrity, my @$$!

[riversedge]

2. Daily Beast: Ivanka Hit With Furious Backlash to Her Island Plot

Anti-corruption investigators are now looking into the project as protests spread.

The president's daughter received clear feedback on her latest grift: Albania is not for sale.

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) 2026-06-03T17:35:08.615Z

Ivanka Hit With Furious Backlash to Her Island Plot
LOUD AND CLEAR
Anti-corruption investigators are now looking into the project as protests spread.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivanka-hit-with-furious-backlash-to-her-island-plot/?utm_source=bsky_owned_snd&utm_medium=bsky&utm_campaign=owned_social


Harry Thompson Published Jun. 3 2026 1:17PM EDT





...................Both Trump and Kushner—who also works as his father-in-law’s peace envoy—have waxed lyrical about the $1.4 billion project.

In her podcast appearance, Ivanka Trump, 44, said, “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.”

They said they happened upon it by accident, adding, “We were on a friend’s boat, and we stopped for a swim. Effectively, that’s how we found it. We swam to the islands. We went on a hike, barefoot all the way, up to the top. And we were just captivated.”

Her comments sparked a furious response from Albanians, and the Trump-Kushner plan has now also prompted a reaction from Albanian authorities. According to Politico, the country’s anti-corruption prosecutors from a specialist task force called SPAK have launched an investigation into changes that were made to the island’s conservation and protected status in 2024.

[tanyev]

3. They think they can just grab anything they see and like how it looks.

😒

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Like little girls and islands.

[slightlv]

8. That seems to be the billionaire's reality...

it's up to us, all over the world, to disabuse them of the ridiculous idea!

[Aristus]

13. Well, this is the reason the guillotine was invented.

Time to start sharpening those blades...

[AverageOldGuy]

7. Oooppss. Read the headline wrong

Thought the headline read “massive arrests”!!

Maybe next time.

[Cheezoholic]

9. The developers said this same shit when they literally built Cape Coral Fl. That picture looks just like it

They destroyed one of the largest Mangrove marshes on the SW coast of FL to build it. And when I say build it they dumped excess fill from phosphorus mines into the marsh's and carved out water streets. We all saw what happened their a few years ago. Not once did FatAss Barbie mention the ecology of that island. "Blending in" is not preserving. Fuck those two cretins.

[GenThePerservering]

10. Ivanka's neck looks freakishly long in that photo

but as usual Jared is pouting.

[brakester]

18. Soulless

bots!

[2na fisherman]

11. The Sins Of The Fathers

Both Jared and Ivanka have criminal fathers. So they think this kind of deal is normal. But they also think they have a get-out-of-jail free card in the form of a presidential pardon. But it doesn't protect them from a foreign country's justice. I wonder how they would like serving time in an Albanian prison. Or accountability may be worse if Jared crosses the wrong people in one of his other Middle East deals.

[CatWoman]

12. the protestors set the prime minister's house on fire

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[Aristus]

14. Oh, GOD! Think of the loss of property!

That's the only shit they care about...

[FSogol]

15. Trump and Kushner: Too corrupt for Albania!