Overview
- Prosecutors from SPAK applied for 20 arrest warrants on June 13–14 and said four people have been detained so far in a probe they describe as linked to international cocaine trafficking.
- Albanian courts ordered precautionary seizures of multiple assets connected to sale contracts that include initials reported to be tied to the contested coastal development.
- The planned project, estimated at about $1.4 billion, is publicly linked to Jared Kushner through Atlantic Incubation Partners and would target the Vjosa‑Narta lagoon and Sazan island, areas of high ecological sensitivity.
- Daily street protests have run for roughly two weeks with thousands calling to stop the development and demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama’s resignation, while Rama has publicly defended the investment as vital for tourism.
- The investigation is ongoing and does not publicly allege wrongdoing by Kushner himself, and the case could reshape oversight of foreign investment, environmental protections on the coast, and Albania’s political debate.