This raised holy hell among all the Albanians who were neither related to the president nor in business with him. Instead, a Kushner-backed development group pressed ahead and paid Shehu over $120 million for the land earlier this year. The Serbia plans fell apart after weeks of protests and the indictment of a cabinet minister who pushed through project approvals. A video showing the Kushner-backed group’s private guards punching a local villager and dragging him across a beach sparked large daily protests in Tirana. 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.