Albania Gives Jared Kushner Hotel Project a Nod as Trump Returns

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By Eric Lipton

Reported from Washington

The government of Albania 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 assignment is one of the various involved to Mr. Trump and its prolonged circle of relatives who directly involve foreign government entities that will advance, even if Trump is not a member of the task. Those same nations.

The approval of the Albania Strategic Investment Committee, directed through Prime Minister Edi Rama, provides Mr. Kushner and its commercial partners to advance with fast -track negotiations to build the luxury hotel in a segment of 111 acres of 2. 2 Square of Sazan. -The Mile Island that will connect through the ferry to the continent.

Mr. Kushner and the Albanian government did not respond to comments requests on Wednesday. But when this project was questioned in the past, the two said that the evaluation was not influenced through the ties of Mr. Kushner with Trump or any effort to consult to ask for favors from the US government.

“The fact that such a family of the American entrepreneur shows interest in making an investment in Albania makes us very proud and happy,” a spokesman for Mr. Rama said last year in the New York Times when we asked questions about projects.

Affinity Partners of Mr. Kushner, an investment capital company supported with around $ 4. 6 billion in money, basically of Saudi Arabia and another sovereign budget of the Middle East, continues the allocation of Albania with Asher Abehsera, a genuine real estate framework that Mr. Kushner in Mr. The past had a team to build tasks in Brooklyn, N. Y.

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