{"id":17144,"date":"2021-07-10T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T08:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=17144"},"modified":"2021-07-10T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T08:04:40","slug":"former-and-existing-public-officials-arrested-over-police-uniforms-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/former-and-existing-public-officials-arrested-over-police-uniforms-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Former and existing public officials arrested over Police Uniforms Tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight existing and former high-ranking officials have been arrested, including one house-arrest, following the operation of SPAK <em>(Special Structure Against Corruption and Organized Crime)<\/em>, regarding the police uniforms tender.<\/p>\n<p>SPAK carried out searches in the suspects\u2019 private residences and government offices, as the arrested officials are now being investigated for allegedly having been involved in corrupted affairs, back in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Around a year ago, the democratic parliamentary group of the opposition pressed charges against 2 cabinet ministers, 4 government officials responsible for public tenders and 2 private companies, who they were accused of having abused their power in the tender amounting to 27 million euros, which was meant to secure police with uniforms for the next 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>In the opposition\u2019s criminal complaint filed at SPAK, which Euronews Albania evaluated in detail, the democratic MPs accused internal minister, Sander Lleshaj, defense minister, Olta Xha\u00e7ka, the head of the Concentrated Purchasing Agency (ABP), Edlira Naqellari, members of the Commission of Offer Evaluation (KVO), Kreshnik Bejkaj, Mariglen Bazali and Fatmir Derhemi and companies \u201cMarsi &amp;AI\u201d and D&amp;E shpk, on allegations that they created the necessary conditions for the determination of the tender\u2019s winner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/09\/chief-of-police-gives-commissariat-directors-100-days-to-improve-their-performance\/\">Chief of Police gives commissariat directors 100 days to \u2018improve their performance\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/08\/rama-on-police-restructuring-corrupt-bar-owners-have-turned-our-officers-into-their-personal-watchdogs\/\">Rama on police restructuring: Corrupt bar owners have turned our officers into their personal watchdogs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/09\/fatos-tushe-to-be-expelled-from-sp-pm-rama-warns-mayors-on-public-procurement-affairs\/\">\u201cFatos Tushe to be expelled from SP\u201d, PM Rama warns mayors on public procurement affairs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight existing and former high-ranking officials have been arrested, including one house-arrest, following the operation of SPAK (Special Structure Against Corruption and Organized Crime), regarding the police uniforms tender. SPAK carried out searches in the suspects\u2019 private residences and government offices, as the arrested officials are now being investigated for allegedly having been involved in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":17145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former and existing public officials arrested over Police Uniforms Tender - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/former-and-existing-public-officials-arrested-over-police-uniforms-tender\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former and existing public officials arrested over Police Uniforms Tender - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eight existing and former high-ranking officials have been arrested, including one house-arrest, following the operation of SPAK (Special Structure Against Corruption and Organized Crime), regarding the police uniforms tender. 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