The construction on the quiet Adriatic island of Zvernec is linked to US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, and has triggered daily protests across the Balkan nation since late May. While thousands take to the streets chanting the slogan "Albanian is not for sale", Balliu has taken to the courts in hopes of recovering his ancestor's land. Earlier this month, armed with "enough documents to fill an entire truck", Balliu filed a complaint with the country's anti-corruption prosecutor's office, SPAK. He maintains that more than 200 hectares of land on Zvernec have belonged to his family since 1933.Prosecutors have seprately opened an investigation into the origin of the funds used to purchase the Zvernec land for the Trump family resort. Balliu is not alone in his property struggle. At least 100,000 land conflict cases are awaiting judgment before the Albanian Supreme Court, judicial sources told AFP, and some have turned deadly, particularly during and after the country's civil war in 1997. - Threats - Albania's land rights issue stems from its communist past that banned individual land ownership, further muddled by customs that date back to the Ottoman era.