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Jared Kushner project being developed on disputed land, Albanian villagers say
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- The land, he later learned from news reports, was now part of a luxury resort planned by international investors including U.S.
- “I was ready to get a rifle and start shooting,” Konomi, 81, told Reuters. “I was a small boy when I put my feet in that water.
- Konomi is one of a dozen residents from the village of Zvernec who told Reuters that their land was wrongfully sold for development since 2024 by a rival claimant.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize ZVERNEC: When Kostaq Konomi approached what he says is his land on the seafront in southern Albania last month, he was met with a barbed wire fence and men in black uniforms who refused him entry.
The land, he later learned from news reports, was now part of a luxury resort planned by international investors including U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The property, which sits on a hillside of flowering gorse that slopes down to a deserted cove where cows saunter in the shallows, had been taken away once by the state in communist times, and he could not bear to see that happening again.
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