{"id":17150,"date":"2021-07-10T14:15:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T12:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=17150"},"modified":"2021-11-09T21:57:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:57:58","slug":"tender-abuse-same-as-robbing-all-citizens-including-us-citizens-ambassador-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/tender-abuse-same-as-robbing-all-citizens-including-us-citizens-ambassador-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tender fraud: same as robbing all citizens, including US citizens\u2019 \u2013 ambassador Kim \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To abuse with public tenders is the same as stealing from all Albanian citizens, including US citizens. This was the reaction of the US ambassador to Albania, Yuri Kim, right after the announcement of the arrests carried out with the orders of SPAK (Special Structure Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime), against the former and existing high-ranking officials at the Internal Affairs Ministry, regarding the violation of the police uniforms tender in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Through a post on Twitter, ambassador Kim commended the recent operations of SPAK, while condemning the tender abuse in Albania, conducted by high public officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood to see more SPAK actions against corruption. Abuse or manipulation of public procurement processes is the same as stealing from all citizens (including US citizens, whose taxes provide assistance to Albania) to fatten the wallets of oneself or one\u2019s \u201cfriends\u201d. It is a crime,\u2019 wrote the US ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>9 former and existing high public officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were arrested earlier today, because of violations with the tender of police uniforms, valued at a whopping $25 million euros.<\/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\/10\/former-and-existing-public-officials-arrested-over-police-uniforms-tender\/\">Former and existing public officials arrested over Police Uniforms Tender<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\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<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To abuse with public tenders is the same as stealing from all Albanian citizens, including US citizens. This was the reaction of the US ambassador to Albania, Yuri Kim, right after the announcement of the arrests carried out with the orders of SPAK (Special Structure Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime), against the former and existing high-ranking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":17151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Tender fraud: same as robbing all citizens, including US citizens\u2019 \u2013 ambassador Kim \u00a0 - 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\/tender-abuse-same-as-robbing-all-citizens-including-us-citizens-ambassador-kim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Tender fraud: same as robbing all citizens, including US citizens\u2019 \u2013 ambassador Kim \u00a0 - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To abuse with public tenders is the same as stealing from all Albanian citizens, including US citizens. 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