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Trump's son-in-law's slur, "The NY Times" echoes the investment: The Albanian government will work with American partners to clear the country of munitions
2025-01-16 10:09:02 / POLITIKË
Translated article from "The New York Times"
The Albanian government has given preliminary approval to a plan proposed by Jared Kushner, Donald J. Trump's son-in-law, to build a $1.4 billion luxury hotel complex on a small abandoned military base off the coast of Albania.
The project is one of several involving Mr. Trump and his extended family that directly involves foreign government entities that will move forward even when Mr. Trump is in charge of foreign policy regarding the same nations.
The approval from Albania’s Strategic Investment Committee, which is headed by Prime Minister Edi Rama, gives Mr. Kushner and his business partners the right to proceed with accelerated negotiations to build the luxury resort on a 111-hectare section of the 2.2-square-mile island of Sazan that will be connected by ferry to the mainland.
Mr. Kushner and the Albanian government did not respond to requests for comment on Wednesday. But when asked about the project earlier, both have said the assessment is not being influenced by Mr. Kushner’s ties to Mr. Trump or any efforts to solicit favors from the U.S. government.
“ The fact that such a well-known American entrepreneur shows his interest in investing in Albania makes us very proud and happy ,” a spokesman for Mr. Rama said last year in a statement to the New York Times, when asked about the projects.
Mr. Kushner’s Affinity Partners, a private equity firm backed by about $4.6 billion in cash, mostly from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, is pursuing the Albania project along with Asher Abehsera, a real estate executive that Mr. Kushner has previously teamed with to build projects in Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Albanian government, according to an official document recently published online, will now work with its American partners to clear the proposed hotel site of any potential buried munitions and to review any other environmental or legal concerns that need to be resolved before the project can move forward.
The document, dated December 30, notes that the government "has the right to revoke the decision," depending on the final negotiations of the project.
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