Instead, a Kushner-backed development group pressed ahead and paid Shehu over $120 million for the land earlier this year. The Kushner-backed development group paid well over $240 million for land to private landowners including Shehu, according to a person familiar with the sales. European law enforcement on surveillance operations spotted him in Monaco with suspected narcotics traffickers, Albanian prosecutors said. At the time, Zvernec land disputes over the site were well-known locally, covered repeatedly in the press. The development group publicly disavowed the actions, attributing them to an unnamed security contractor.