TIRANA, August 18 – The Anticorruption Court upheld the rulings announced in absentia against eight officials under investigation for abuse of office, forgery and fraud in what is known as the sterilization file.
The former Deputy Minister of Health, Klodian Rrjepaj, requested a reduction in the measure from prison to a lighter one by offering a financial guarantee, but judge Etleva Deda refused.
He did the same for Ilir Rrapaj, the businessman of the concessionaire of “Sani Service”, who, according to SPAK, is suspected of having known the former Minister of Health, Ilir Beqaj with whom he traveled through Rinas on three occasions before signing the contract.
But the eight SPAK suspects for whom the court approved the detention measures are all members of the commission.
The court directed the SPAK to pursue criminal prosecution against two former ministers Shkëlqim Cani, who approved the concessionaire after objections, as well as Ilir Beqaj, who is suspected of having a conflict of interest.
The two SPAK prosecutors have carried out investigations over the last three years and have checked the surgical interventions in some hospitals, the sterilization but also the inflated costs before the contract was signed, but also its non-implementation. /argumentum.al
