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Ilir Rrapajt gave him the concession of 100 million euros, but when the journalist Elton Qyno asked him if he knew him or had any contact with him, the former Minister of Health Ilir Beqja said that he did not know him at all. In the article for BIRN, the journalist wrote that he had then sent some photos to Ilir Beqaj, where he appeared together with Ilir Rrapaj, and then the former minister remembered.
"When asked over the phone about his relationship with Ilir Rrapaj, Minister Beqaj initially denied knowing him. After BIRN sent the minister some photos where he appeared with the businessman from Perugia, Beqaja's memory was refreshed, admitting that "he knew Mr. Ilir Rrapaj."
"Following your interest, from the research of the documentation related to the concession with the object 'For integrated services for the provision of a customized set of surgical instruments...', it results that Mr. Ilir Rrapaj is a representative of one of the companies, members of one of the consortia or Economic Operators (EO) that have shown interest in this procurement procedure," Beqja told BIRN in a 2015 article.
SPAK has issued 8 orders for the sterilization tender, with various security measures, two of which "prison arrest" for the former Deputy Minister of Health, Klodian Rjepaj and businessman Ilir Rrapaj.
Meanwhile, for two other officials, the measure of "house arrest" was set, and for 4 others, the measure of "obligation to appear" was set.
For three years SPAK has started an investigation regarding the sterilization tender worth 100 million euros, which was won by Ilir Rrapaj.
The latter was an unknown businessman in business circles in Albania until 2013. Before the socialists came to power, he was the owner of a brokerage agency as well as a modest construction company based in Perugia, Italy.
For more than a decade, Ilir Rrapaj ran a small construction company with only one employee, registered in a quiet residential area in the city of Perugia in the Umbria region of Italy, which he founded together with two relatives of in 2000 with a small capital of 1500 euros.
However, after the victory of the Socialist Party in the elections of June 2013, the immigrant originating from the village of Rexhepaj in Vlorë returned to Albania and established contact with the head of the Albanian health, Ilir Beqaj, with whom he had frequent meetings in which they also participated. Italian businessmen, interested in the market of medical services.
Two years after returning to the homeland, through a company registered in Kosovo, Rrapaj has been declared the main winner of a concession contract of 100 million dollars in a contested tender.
Through his company Investital LLC, which has a capital of 1,000 euros and is registered in Pristina, Rrapaj owns 40% of the shares of a consortium of Italian companies, which won the tender for the sterilization of surgical equipment, BIRN wrote. / Lapsi.al
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