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Former Minister of Health Ilir Beqaj's apartment was searched by the State Police and BKH.
It is learned that the control in the apartment on "Barrikadave" street was carried out as part of the ongoing investigations for the "Sterilization" concession.
Becaja has been assigned by SPAK the coercive measure of appearing before the judicial police and the ban on leaving the country as a person under investigation for abuse of office in the procedures of the concession of sterilization of surgical equipment.
Beqaj has been ordered to appear every Friday at the National Bureau of Investigation, not to leave the territory of Albania without the authorization of the court, and he is prohibited from using his passport or other means of identification for going abroad.
He is the highest official under accusation for the violations found with the public-private partnership contract of sterilization, after the arrest in August of this year of the businessman Ilir Rrapaj and his deputy in the Ministry of Health, Klodian Rrjepaj.
The 3-year investigations carried out by SPAK have revealed violations of the law in the procedures for awarding one of the most expensive concessions in the health sector, with the sole purpose of declaring the companies of Ilir Rrapaj and the Italian citizen, Umbro Staccini, the winners.
The list of violations contains a feasibility study with false data in violation of the law; drafting the criteria in such a way that they fit the real situation of the pre-selected companies as well as Beqaj's inaction to resolve the conflict of interest between Rrjepaj as the chairman of the concession commission and Rrapaj as its beneficiary, oranews reports.
Legal violations were also found during the negotiation of the concession contract, which, according to the judge, were "clearly in favor of the company declared the winner, to the detriment of the interests of the state".
Ilir Beqaj was elected Minister of Health in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Edi Rama and during his leadership in the years 2013-2017, three concession contracts of tens of millions of euros for health system services were signed.
From 2021, Beqaj heads the State Agency for Strategic Program and Aid Coordination and in October of this year, he became part of the negotiating group for Albania's integration into the European Union.
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