Former Minister of Health, Ilir Beqaj, in the investigation for the concession of sterilization of surgical sets, appeared again this Friday morning at 09:00 again to be questioned by the Special Prosecution against Corruption (SPAK).
During the summoning to SPAK,. Beqaj was accompanied by his lawyer.
Former minister Ilir Beqaj is also under investigation for abuses at SASPAC, the Foreign Funds Coordination Agency.
On Tuesday (January 9), Ilir Beqaj was interrogated for about 9 hours for the sterilization concession.
On leaving the SPAK where he was accompanied by the lawyer Ermal Yzeiraj, in a statement to the media, Beqaj said that the interrogation sessions will continue while he repeated the request to the SPAK, that the materials of the audit report of the KLSH- of.
As he considered the investigations complex, he underlined that it is necessary to extend them earlier than granting the concession from March 2011 to September 2013.
In November 2023, the Special Court ordered the ex-minister to appear twice a month at the prosecutor’s office, for the charge of abuse of office.
Investigation is about the alleged violations by SPAK, in the sterilization concession worth 100 million euros and a 10-year term, won by the businessman Ilir Rrapaj, already arrested together with the former Deputy Minister of Health, Klodian Rrjepaj.
Furthermore, Beqaj is a person under investigation for the issue of check-up and a few days ago his apartment was checked because there are suspicions that he has also abused SASPAC funds./abcnews.al
