New Delhi, July 11 -- TIRANA - The land at the center of Albania's fiercest political crisis in a decade may have been purchased with drug money. Albania's anti-corruption prosecution service said this week that the Miami businessman who sold the coastline earmarked for a Jared Kushner-backed luxury resort is suspected of laundering cocaine trafficking proceeds into Albanian property through falsified title deeds, a development that has added a criminal dimension to a dispute already driving tens of thousands of protesters into the streets.

The Special Structure Against Corruption and Organised Crime, known in Albania as SPAK, named Artur Shehu as the seller who transferred the land to Albania Land Development in April. Prosecutors alleg...