The Jared Kushner-Ivanka Trump Albania island purchase has taken a sinister turn as the deed transferring the property from Artur Shehu to the Kushner pair is revealed to be a forgery.
The case files accuse Shehu and associates of trafficking South American cocaine into European ports, and laundering the funds by using them to establish a real estate empire, including with falsified land-ownership documents. Shehu is a resident of Miami.
Albania organized crime syndicates have been well-known with the Cela Copja Clan regarded as the most powerful in Albania.
Led by Frank Copja and Elvis Cela, the group allegedly has smuggled tens of tonnes of cocaine into Europe, laundering billions in cash through "luxury real estate and five-star resorts." The same styled resort Kushner and Ivanka sought to build on the remote island, Sazan. There are no coincidences.
The cocaine is trafficked from Colombia into European ports and laundered through real estate investments.
The US Department of Justice has yet to extradite Shehu to Albania per the arrest warrant. Prime Minister, Edi Rama, immediately came forward and declared there is no indication the Kushner's knew anything was illegal.
Shehu had claimed he rightfully obtained the land from the Ottoman Empire and produced an Ottoman era land document as proof. However, the documents reveal the archivist mistranslated a name and then inserted Shehu's name. The archivist has been arrested and convicted.
Prosecutors in Albania claim Shehu is part of the Cela Copja Crime syndicate.
The two leaders of the syndicate are facing murder charges on the shooting of a rival gang member.
Kushner and Trump, with all the background resources of the White House at their disposal claim they had no idea Shehu was a money laundering criminal specializing in 5-star resorts. The cash and assets associated with the transaction have been confiscated by the Albanian authorities.
The protests across Albania claim the PM Edi Rama who backed the sale is dirty.
Sazan Island close to Albanian Port Vlore
Rama's autocratic rule has been described as 'personalistic' – meaning he is using his premiership to enhance personal wealth and power. A cyborg of President Trump. The issue over the Kushner's looking to buy Savan Island was raised in 2024 when journalists asked Rama about the Kushner deal and he refused to respond while banishing them from future press conferences.
In 2015, Rama signed a joint agreement with Netanyahu where they proclaimed their great mutual friendship and the promise of shared medical research cooperation with Israel. In 2025, Rama visited Israel and declared his complete support of the Palestinian Genocide. Rama is an agnostic. In 2017, Rama was exposed in a series of audio tapes obtained by the German media Bild to have potentially used criminal tactics in the election and to have had consequential conversations with Albania's organized crime syndicate leaders. International assessments on these allegations were perpetuated throughout global media outlets – yet somehow never reaching the eyes and ears of Kushner and Ivanka who claim innocence of anything anywhere anytime during their respective lifetimes and those of all their children.
Or, perhaps, given their shared forte of high end real estate, their partnership was wholly transparent and utilized to gain access to or supplement the laundering and trafficking trades. Either way, it appears rather childish to pretend there was no pay-to-play given the evidence, their history, and that of their respective parents:
"President Donald Trump has granted clemency or pardons to roughly 100 individuals connected to drug-related offenses across his two terms in office, including a select group of high-profile major traffickers, gang leaders, and figures linked to large-scale narcotics operations." (Washington Post
One such figures is Ross Ulbricht who had been convicted of murder for hire, money laundering, trafficking fraudulent identity documents, and conspiracy to commit computer hacking. He created the Silk Road underground marketing platform where buyers could buy anything anonymously which was operated on the Tor Network. He was convicted on all charged accounts and sentenced to two life imprisonments plus 40 years. Thomas Massie called for a commutation of his conviction in 2022.
"In late 2023, as Mr. Trump ramped up his presidential campaign, he met Angela McArdle, the Libertarian Party leader, who told him that he could win the Libertarian vote if he promised to release Mr. Ulbricht."
In 2025, Ulbricht was pardoned by Trump.
Silk Road was a trader in Bitcoin. While the US Government uncovered one wallet and confiscated it – worth somewhere in the range of $5 billion – it is believed Ulbricht had multiple wallets estimated to be worth $1 to $2 billion that now support his lavish lifestyle with his wife.
Edi Ramas has joined Trump three times in Washington, once in 2017, and then once in February 2026 and another more recent in July.
The Albania protests against the Kushner's began mid May and continue to this day against the Island Sale and the corruption of Edi Rama – dubbed the Flamingo Revolution.
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Helena Glass is Former CPA & Series 7, with emphasis in Real Estate and Financial Planning. Two brains in one: former Bronze Sculpter and Danseuse. Visit the author's blog.
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