Businessman who sold land for Kushner resort in Albania suspected of faking the deeds

[hookaleft]

TIRANA, July 11 (Reuters) - A Miami-based businessman wanted in Albania for allegedly laundering drug money is suspected of faking the deeds to land where Jared Kushner wants to build a multi-billion-dollar resort, the country's organised crime-fighting agency said in case files reviewed by Reuters.

The businessman, Artur Shehu, denies all accusations against him, said his lawyer, Kujtim Cakrani, who confirmed ​that Albanian prosecutors had issued a warrant seeking Shehu's arrest for laundering money for drug gangs.

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In April, Shehu sold the strip of pristine Albanian coastline for the planned resort to Albania Land Development, a company which is owned by the Kushner-backed project's developers Sazan Real Estate ​Development and other investors.

"Reasonable suspicions are formed, based on evidence, that the above‑mentioned assets were acquired through the use of forged documents," prosecutors wrote in the case files.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/businessman-who-sold-land-kushner-resort-albania-suspected-faking-deeds-2026-07-11/

[Turbineguy]

1. A trump family member would naturally gravitate to somebody like that.

[LakeVermilion]

2. I'm sure Jared told Donald that this was a deal they couldn't pass up...

Imagine buying Albania's only island, with enough bunkers to withstand an attack from NATO, yet even a wildlife refuge. Islands like that don't become available every day. All for ten million or so...

Do your homework, Jared...

[AllaN01Bear]

20. pssst , hey budy, i got a bridge for sale cheap.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. That means Jared and Ivanka don't legally

own that land, even have an interest in it.

[ToxMarz]

5. And I hope they lost their money and can't recover it too

although you can bet it was money they stole from someone else.

Still, crooks hate losing any money, even stolen money.

[HighFired49]

28. From the article:

"Prosecutors have frozen the sale funds in a notary account, blocking Shehu from receiving them"

[usaf-vet]

31. PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE. THE ENTIRE TRUMP FAMILY NEEDS TO BE CHEATED. As for stealing it from someone...

..... It's all of our taxpayers' money that Daddy has stolen from the US taxpayers.

[hatrack]

7. Ivanka: "Daddeeee!!!! We need HELP!!!! Help us get our money back!!! PLEAZZZZEEEE!!!!"

[thomski64]

9. I will Ivanka, daddy will get it back.

...by the way, what are you wearing?

[OGBuzz]

12. Daddy will send in the marines to put down protests in Tirana as soon as he's done surrendering to Iran.

[mwmisses4289]

27. Oh, they have an interest in it.

Whether that interest is legal or not, that is a totally different story.

Geez, they make me think of the character Veruca Salt in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". So spoiled rotten, they think everything they want is theirs.

[no_hypocrisy]

37. The transfer of a fraudulent deed IS an issue of legality.

Jared and Ivanka can't accept a deed, regardless of payment, if the property legally belongs to someone who wasn't the entity who sold it to them.

This is akin to fraudsters who go into title offices, get a copy of someone's deed for a property that's not actively lived in. They make a new deed with their name on it and either lease it or sell it. The true owner comes to the property to find strangers living in his/her/their house and the locks changed. When it goes to court, the "new" owners are usually evicted.

[MineralMan]

4. Scammers Often Get Scammed.

Remember "The Sting?"
It's hilarious when they do, too. I'm hopeful.

[AZJonnie]

34. It's such a well-worn trope at this point when you watch a movie about con artists

You pretty much know they'll end up conned themselves at the end of things.

A number of Mamet movies are along those lines for example. The Grifters, Matchstick Men, Confidence, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels are a few others that come to mind.

It's going to be freaking HILARIOUS if the Kushner's got conned on this deal

[Martin68]

6. If the deeds are found to be fake that would excellent on so many levels. it would expose Kushner et al as

greedy amateurs falling for a scam. It would also mean the project won't go through, given the opposition that has already organized.

[Fil1957]

8. Uhmm, cool!

[Ponietz]

10. And that's why Patel was needed in DC this weekend, huh?

[EndlessMaze]

11. Can't make this stuff up!

[poozwah]

13. damn

dirty deeds. who wudda thunk it?

[Progressive dog]

14. So will this make Albania

a target of the US military? Trump's already TACO'd on Iran dozens of times and maybe he's ready to change the subject.

[paleotn]

16. Nope. NATO member.

Donnie only picks on brown people in out of the way places. Beyond that, he's a cowering little shit. That's why he's done nothing about Greenland other than bluster like a fool.

[ShazzieB]

17. Exactly!

[OGBuzz]

15. The island is public property owned by the Albanian state. How on earth would some sleazy Miami

businessman end up with deeds to a state owned island in the first place? This is pure criminal fraud and the Kuschner's were in on it from the beginning. They just didn't imagine that the Albanian people don't give a f*ck who daddy is. Maybe this is a good lesson for Americans.

[paleotn]

18. Ha ha! Jarad gets screwed!!

And so do the "investors" stupid enough to get in bed with him. For Kushner, this deal just keeps getting worse and worse.

[xuplate]

19. Karma

[tanyev]

21. *gasp*

[haele]

22. I'm shocked - shocked - that someone who is accused of allegedly laundering drug money...

Sold a pristine protected ecological preserve belonging to a country rather than being private property to Princess Sparklepony and her wooden mobster doll who's waiting to become a real, live boy one day....
Well - no I'm not.
Mobsters be mobbing, as my grandkids say.

[BattleRow]

25. Princess Sparklepony and Prince Spinocchio

[hookaleft]

30. Artur Shehu lives in Miami

I bet they knew him from Florida. Probably socialize in the same circles. All Ivanka's bull about having discovered "this island". Bet it was a scheme from the very start.

[2MuchNoise]

23. No honor among thieves.

[Joinfortmill]

24. You couldn't make this shit up

[ZDU]

26. Gomer says...

"Well surprise, SURPRISE!"

[flvegan]

29. Dirty Deeds

The irony of Prince Pencilneck and Princess MyDadsaPedophile being victims of real estate fraud. Poor babies.

[Bengus81]

32. Oh I bet the champange glasses were clinking as the deed was handed over and the

$10M check was given to Shehu in their Miami mansion.

Bwhahahahahahaha!!!! This is delicious!

[SWBTATTReg]

33. If true, this would be sweet justice and so forth, and that the theft of this property would be recognized and the

'real' owner of the property be restored and the sale to Kushner sale be totally voided.

[yellowcanine]

35. But Hunter Biden's paintings!

[muriel_volestrangler]

36. And this is why Albania will not be admitted to the EU for a long time

Shehu is wanted in Albania for laundering drug money, but "Albania's government has strongly backed the plans ... Prime Minister Edi Rama told Reuters last month that it was a "beautiful" project and would go ahead regardless.
"Asked about the allegations in the case files against Shehu, a government spokesperson said the government would not intervene in private transactions, but that the project was proceeding in compliance with Albanian and EU laws."
So they're happy for a wanted man to be profiting, because he's selling to the Trump family. The current Albanian government is as corrupt as that family. So obviously not fit to run a country.

[Buddyzbuddy]

38. Please, please, please be true.

How rich, what irony.