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There is no freedom for the former Deputy Minister of Health Klodian Rrjepaj and businessman Ilir Rrapaj, accused of the affair with the Sterilization concession. They requested a change in the security measure, but the Special Court rejected them, leaving them in the cells.
For SPAK, the Sterilization concession was granted in a clientelistic manner and for this reason he arrested the former deputy minister of that time and the businessman who received the concession. But the scandal is that the architect of this whole affair, Ilir Beqaj, continues to be free. The former minister signed on 4 occasions for the said concession, but SPAK amnestied him. It was the court that forced SPAK to conduct investigations, but until now SPAK has not concluded with charges.
GJKKO announces that SPAK has addressed the Court with a request with the object: Two-month information on the needs of insurance in the framework of criminal proceedings No. 13 of 2020, for persons under investigation KR and IR investigated with the security measure "Arrest in prison" as well as for persons under investigation MS and SK investigated with the security measure "House arrest", determined by decision No. 49, dated 23.06.2023 of the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime.
"At the end of the trial, the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime with a panel composed of judge Erjon Bani, based on articles 112, 246 point 6 and 260 of the Criminal Code decided:
Continuation of the security measure "arrest in prison" provided by article 238 of the Penal Code, assigned to the person under investigation KR by decision No. 49, dated 23.06.2023 of the First Instance Special Court for Corruption and Organized Crime.
Continuation of the security measure "arrest in prison" provided by article 238 of the Penal Code, assigned to the person under IR investigation by decision No. 49, dated 23.06.2023 of the First Instance Special Court for Corruption and Organized Crime.
Continuation of the security measure "house arrest" provided by article 237 of the Penal Code, assigned to the person under investigation MS with decision No. 49, dated 23.06.2023 of the First Instance Special Court for Corruption and Organized Crime.
Continuation of the security measure "house arrest" provided by article 237 of the Penal Code, assigned to the person under investigation SK by decision No. 49, dated 23.06.2023 of the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime", the court announced.
The role of Beqaj
In February 2014, the Minister of Health, Ilir Beqaj, received a request from the director of QSUT, Ogerta Manastirliu - today the Minister of Health, to put into operation a modern sterilization center that had been sleeping for years in the new emergency hospital, but the request remained unanswered.
The capacity of the sterilization center covered about 60,000 surgical interventions per year from the 50,000 reported to have been performed in 2013, but was not put into operation because training of support staff was needed.
But even though he was informed about the investment made, Minister Beqaj gave the green light to continue with the concession procedures. According to a subsequent audit by the High State Control, the public sterilization center was expected to operate at 96 million lek per year, or almost 5 times less than the 558 million lek that the concessionary company billed in 2016 for the same service.
According to the Special Court, Beqaj did not take any measures to put the sterilization center into operation, as he had previously made the decision to provide the service with a concession.
"From the analysis of all the first evidence in their unity, the court considers that the former Minister of Health, Ilir Beqaj, in cooperation with the person under investigation, Klodian Rrjepaj, had made the decision to provide the sterilization service with a concession and had selected in advance, who would win this concession...," reasoned judge Bani, adding that the predetermined winners were Ilir Rrapaj and the Italian citizen Umbro Staccini.
According to the file, Beqaj was aware of the close friendly relationship between his deputy and Rrapaj, as well as the involvement of the latter in the preparation of the feasibility study, which then paved the way for his victory.
From the seizure of Rrjepaj's e-mail, the investigators single out two emails sent by Ilir Rrapaj in February and March of 2014, through which he sends two studies of the University of Perugia, which were then included in the feasibility study.
"Dear Fra'! This is the text I warned you about, which Vanesa wrote to me about. Take a look and let us know. I hope your ear pain has subsided a little now," Rrapaj wrote to Deputy Minister Rrjepaj.
On the same day, on March 17, 2014, the deputy minister forwarded the email to his boss, Ilir Beqaj, in his official and private email.
Also within a week in June 2014, Rrapaj and his Italian partner came to Tirana and returned to Italy, while the two heads of the Ministry of Health, Beqaj and Rrjepaj also traveled to Italy.
On June 15, 2014, Beqaj, Rrjepaj and Rrapaj returned together to Tirana from Rome on the same airline.
"Just one month after the plane trip, Rrapaj creates the company Investital in Pristina, which would then become the winner with 40% of the concession. This company was also founded only one month before the order of the Minister of Health "On the establishment of the concession granting commission" was issued and there was only one employee, Ilir Rrapajn," the decision states.
The investigations have also revealed communications and joint trips of Minister Beqaj with the beneficiaries after the granting of the concession, which according to judge Bani should constitute evidence for further investigations in terms of the criminal offense of corruption.
On September 25, 2016, former minister Beqaj and the administrator of the concession company, Admir Daca, traveled on the same "Austrian Airlines" plane to Vienna, while on May 23, 2017, Beqja and Rrjepaj returned to Albania from Rome on the same plane. with Ilir Rrapaj and Umbro Staccini.
The last trip in the file was identified on March 13, 2018, when Beqaj, Rrjepaj, Rrapaj and Staccini returned with the same car from the Morin customs between Albania and Kosovo.
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