This story is about part of the land the Kushner-affiliated resort in Albania will be build on

JUL 02 2026 · 19:00

This story is about part of the land the Kushner-affiliated resort in Albania will be build on (Zvërnec, Vjosa Narta). For context: when land is bought and sold in Albania, the buyer can often be protected as a “good faith purchaser.” The idea is fair: if you buy something honestly, not knowing the seller’s title was dirty, the law shouldn’t punish you for someone else’s fraud. That protection is the entire escape hatch in this case. The buyers don’t need the document to be real. They just need to convince a court they had no reason to know it wasn’t. Now put the dates next to each other. The Supreme Court called the document fake in 2024. The land was sold to the current buyers in 2026. That’s not a secret buried in an archive but a public ruling from the highest court in Albania, sitting there for almost two years before the sale went through. And this is exactly the door the Albanian government is walking through. Rama’s public speach is that the land now belongs to the buyers, that the seller investigations are a separate matter, and that the property itself is outside any investigation. Whether that holds is the one thing this whole story turns on. None of this is my reporting. I’m not a journalist. It comes from BIRN, OCCRP, Reporter.al and SHTEG. Reporter.al (the court timeline): reporter.al/en/2026/05/29/the-investors-behind-the-trump-familys-albanian-resort/ OCCRP (the SPAK investigation): occrp.org/en/scoop/albanian-drug-trafficking-investigation-overlaps-with-probe-into-planned-resort-that-sparked-flamingo-revolution BIRN / Balkan Insight (the network behind the title): balkaninsight.com/2026/06/04/behind-a-trump-linked-albanian-resort-project-a-host-of-murky-interests/bi/ Decisions like this are designed to be boring so nobody watches them. I try to make information accessible so you can all watch this one. #zvernec #albania #handsoffvjosanarta #vjosanarta #albanianature