Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC
Ownership as documented
Affinity Partners (Kushner's firm) per search summaries; Affinity did not respond (Correctiv). Not independently confirmed.
Owner of Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC (search summaries)
Evidence: Search summaries (Citizens.al and Reporter.al results) describe AIP as an Affinity-owned vehicle; Correctiv says Affinity's concrete role could not be confirmed. Treated as UNDER_INVESTIGATION.
Description
Entity that received 'strategic investor' status from the Albanian government in January 2025 (Citizens.al). Reporter.al (2026-06-06) reports a draft government decision to transfer Sazan Island to this company. Search summaries describe it as owned by Affinity Partners; Citizens.al (2026-06-08) does not mention it, and government statements say the Sazani offer was unsolicited from Affinity.
Contracts and money
- Government decision→Sazan island: strategic investor status (2024) and 2026 draft transfer of administrationSource label: Officially reported
Strategic investor status granted to Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC (30 Dec 2024, as reported)
Evidence: Citizens.al (2025-01-16): Strategic Investment Committee granted status to the proposal of Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC on 30 Dec 2024. Existing entries conn-atlantic-sazan-case and conn-kushner-atlantic-sazan in.
Figures recorded for the cases linked to this organisation. A figure here is not necessarily paid to or by this organisation; check payer and payee.
Zvernec South Adriatic Development capital increase
€250,000
otherSource label: Under investigationStated definition: Capital raised from 50,000 to 250,000 euro two days before the 7 May 2026 agreement, per Citizens.al. Capital increase, not a contract price.
Date: May 2026 · Payer: Shareholders (not named in fetched text) · Payee: Zvernec South Adriatic Development sh.p.k
- Documents that reveal who is taking control of Zvereni and Sazan (opens in a new tab)Citizens.al · 8 Jun 2026 · journalism · EN
Albania Land Development transferred to Sazan Operations Holding
€10,000
Incomplete figurepaymentSource label: Under investigationStated definition: 10,000 euro per Citizens.al (2026-06-08). A separate search summary reports a land sale of 5.5 million euro (Artur Shehu to ALD, 21 Nov 2025) with value rising to 122 million under prosecutor review; that source was not opened and is UNVERIFIED. INCOMPLETE.
Date: Nov 2025 · Payer: Sazan Operations Holding (Doha) · Payee: Albania Land Development sh.p.k (shareholder transfer)
- Documents that reveal who is taking control of Zvereni and Sazan (opens in a new tab)Citizens.al · 8 Jun 2026 · journalism · EN
Kushner and associates investment, narrative figure
€1,000,000,000
Incomplete figureotherSource label: Under investigationStated definition: 'One billion euros for the island' per Follow the Money narrative (Citizens.al 2026-06-21). Not verified against any company filing; separately Balkan press cites about 1.4 billion dollars or 1.5 billion dollars for the total project. INCOMPLETE and conflicting.
Date: Jun 2026 · Payer: Kushner and associates (as narrated) · Payee: Sazan project (undetermined)
- Corruption investigation into Trump's son-in-law's Albanian resort leads to Holland (opens in a new tab)Citizens.al (Follow the Money) · 21 Jun 2026 · journalism · EN
Al-Khayyat Group access to construction contracts (NYT, as cited)
€12,000,000,000
Incomplete figurecontractSource label: Under investigationStated definition: 'About twelve billion euros' per New York Times as cited by Follow the Money (Citizens.al 2026-06-21). Attribution is second-hand. INCOMPLETE: no breakdown by contract or project.
Date: Jun 2026 · Payer: Government / public contracting authorities (as implied) · Payee: Al-Khayyat Group
- Corruption investigation into Trump's son-in-law's Albanian resort leads to Holland (opens in a new tab)Citizens.al (Follow the Money) · 21 Jun 2026 · journalism · EN
Payment to personal holding of Zoya Gyurova
€400,000
paymentSource label: Under investigationStated definition: EUR 400,000 'poured into a personal holding company' per Follow the Money, from her annual financial report. Source of the funds not stated in the summary read.
Date: Jun 2026 · Payer: Dutch / Strik-linked structure (per FTM, not precisely stated) · Payee: Personal holding company of Zoya Gyurova
- Corruption investigation into Trump's son-in-law's Albanian resort leads to Holland (opens in a new tab)Citizens.al (Follow the Money) · 21 Jun 2026 · journalism · EN
Draft transfer of about 5.2 million m2 (more than 90% of Sazan) to the state strategic-investment real estate fund
No amount recorded
otherSource label: Under investigationStated definition: Area, not a sum. Property 206/7: 5,255,215 m2 land and 31,005 m2 buildings; 208: 254,178 m2 and 5,344 m2; 207: 9,386 m2 and 412 m2 (Reporter.al draft figures).
Date: 6 Jun 2026 · Payer: Ministry of Defence (current administrator) · Payee: Real Estate Fund for Strategic Investments under Ministry of Economy (draft)
- Document reveals government preparing transfer of Sazan Island for Jared Kushner project (opens in a new tab)Reporter.al (BIRN) · 6 Jun 2026 · journalism · EN
Officials and people linked
No person is linked to this organisation in the research.
Investigations and cases
Sorted by reported money, then by linked people and their legal status. The money figure is the largest single reported figure, not a total.
From Mar 2024
Zvernec / Sazan resort: corporate chain, land and SPAK probe
A luxury resort project on Sazan Island and at Zvernec (Vlore), linked in reporting to Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners and to the Qatari Al-Khayyat brothers. Reporting by Citizens.al, Reporter.al…
Status: Open. SPAK investigation ongoing per reporting to 21 June 2026. No charges against Kushner or Affinity found.
From 2 Dec 2024
Sazan island: strategic investor status (2024) and 2026 draft transfer of administration
Citizens.al (2025-01-16) reports that on 2 December 2024 President Bajram Begaj removed the Sazani area from the Armed Forces deployment plan, and that on 30 December 2024 the Strategic Investment…
Status: Strategic status granted (Dec 2024, as reported); draft transfer reported June 2026, adoption not confirmed; negotiations described as ongoing by Rama (per…
Sources for this record
Every source the research cites for this record, grouped by its source label. 3 sources.
Source label: Officially reportedOfficially reported · 1 source
- Publisher
- Citizens.al
- Date
- 16 Jan 2025
Source label: Under investigationUnder investigation · 2 sources
- Publisher
- Reporter.al
- Date
- 6 Jun 2026
- Publisher
- Correctiv
- Date
- 15 Jul 2026