{"id":17734,"date":"2021-07-20T11:46:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=17734"},"modified":"2021-07-20T11:46:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:46:25","slug":"prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecution seeks to turn culprits arrested for Uniforms Tender into \u2018collaborators of justice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Prosecution Office is trying to turn the high-ranking officials that were arrested over the abuse of the Police Uniforms Tender into collaborators of justice.<\/p>\n<p>Euronews Albania\u2019s journalist, Merin Ma\u00e7i reports that there have been several attempts to have two of the public officials \u2013 that are now facing allegations of \u2018Obstructing the right to equality in tenders\u2019 \u2013 provide any valuable details regarding their superiors or any other kind of indication that the orders might have come from above.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutors\u2019 goal is the discover more individuals that might be involved in these schemes, but to date there\u2019s no information regarding whether or not these attempts have led to any favorable results.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations conducted by the <strong>Agency of Concentrated Purchases<\/strong> for the police uniforms tender, began after a denouncement for another abusive tender made by an enterprise, that was later put together under the same probe, following the denouncement of the former MPs of the parliamentary opposition.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 9 high-ranking former and existing officials have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, investigations have shown that 2 public officials hadn\u2019t agreed to sign the tender documents, because they had noticed violations or irregularities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><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\/15\/e630-million-given-out-in-tenders-without-a-race-in-the-past-6-years\/\">\u20ac630 million given out in tenders without a race, in the past 6 years<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/news\/2021\/07\/13\/e24-million-uniforms-tender-scandal-police-officers-complain-about-low-fabric-quality\/\">\u20ac24 million uniforms tender scandal, officers complain about low fabric quality<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Prosecution Office is trying to turn the high-ranking officials that were arrested over the abuse of the Police Uniforms Tender into collaborators of justice. Euronews Albania\u2019s journalist, Merin Ma\u00e7i reports that there have been several attempts to have two of the public officials \u2013 that are now facing allegations of \u2018Obstructing the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":17735,"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>Prosecution seeks to turn culprits arrested for Uniforms Tender into \u2018collaborators of justice\u2019 - 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\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prosecution seeks to turn culprits arrested for Uniforms Tender into \u2018collaborators of justice\u2019 - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Special Prosecution Office is trying to turn the high-ranking officials that were arrested over the abuse of the Police Uniforms Tender into collaborators of justice. Euronews Albania\u2019s journalist, Merin Ma\u00e7i reports that there have been several attempts to have two of the public officials \u2013 that are now facing allegations of \u2018Obstructing the right [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.al\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-20T09:46:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SPAK-3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"506\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nen Si\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@euronewsalbania\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@euronewsalbania\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nen Si\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nen Si\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/444d280f35e047949b7f0bc08093608f\"},\"headline\":\"Prosecution seeks to turn culprits arrested for Uniforms Tender into \u2018collaborators of justice\u2019\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-20T09:46:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-07-20T09:46:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/\"},\"wordCount\":242,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SPAK-3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Kryesor 1\",\"Kryesoret\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Albania\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/\",\"name\":\"Prosecution seeks to turn culprits arrested for Uniforms Tender into \u2018collaborators of justice\u2019 - Euronews Albania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SPAK-3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-20T09:46:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-07-20T09:46:25+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SPAK-3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SPAK-3.jpg\",\"width\":900,\"height\":506,\"caption\":\"Special Structure Against Corruption and Organized Crime, SPAK. \u00a9 LSA\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Prosecution seeks to turn culprits arrested for Uniforms Tender into \u2018collaborators of justice\u2019\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Euronews Albania\",\"description\":\"Top stories in Albania, Kosovo and the Balkans\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Euronews Albania\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-mobile-euronews-albania-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-mobile-euronews-albania-1.png\",\"width\":280,\"height\":33,\"caption\":\"Euronews Albania\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.al\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/euronewsalbania\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/444d280f35e047949b7f0bc08093608f\",\"name\":\"Nen Si\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/author\/nensi\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Prosecution seeks to turn culprits arrested for Uniforms Tender into \u2018collaborators of justice\u2019 - Euronews Albania","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Prosecution seeks to turn culprits arrested for Uniforms Tender into \u2018collaborators of justice\u2019 - Euronews Albania","og_description":"The Special Prosecution Office is trying to turn the high-ranking officials that were arrested over the abuse of the Police Uniforms Tender into collaborators of justice. Euronews Albania\u2019s journalist, Merin Ma\u00e7i reports that there have been several attempts to have two of the public officials \u2013 that are now facing allegations of \u2018Obstructing the right [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/","og_site_name":"Euronews Albania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.al\/","article_published_time":"2021-07-20T09:46:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":900,"height":506,"url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SPAK-3.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nen Si","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@euronewsalbania","twitter_site":"@euronewsalbania","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nen Si","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/"},"author":{"name":"Nen Si","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/444d280f35e047949b7f0bc08093608f"},"headline":"Prosecution seeks to turn culprits arrested for Uniforms Tender into \u2018collaborators of justice\u2019","datePublished":"2021-07-20T09:46:25+00:00","dateModified":"2021-07-20T09:46:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/"},"wordCount":242,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SPAK-3.jpg","keywords":["Kryesor 1","Kryesoret"],"articleSection":["Albania"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/","name":"Prosecution seeks to turn culprits arrested for Uniforms Tender into \u2018collaborators of justice\u2019 - Euronews Albania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SPAK-3.jpg","datePublished":"2021-07-20T09:46:25+00:00","dateModified":"2021-07-20T09:46:25+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SPAK-3.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SPAK-3.jpg","width":900,"height":506,"caption":"Special Structure Against Corruption and Organized Crime, SPAK. \u00a9 LSA"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-to-turn-culprits-arrested-for-uniforms-tender-into-collaborators-of-justice\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Prosecution seeks to turn culprits arrested for Uniforms Tender into \u2018collaborators of justice\u2019"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/","name":"Euronews Albania","description":"Top stories in Albania, Kosovo and the Balkans","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization","name":"Euronews Albania","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-mobile-euronews-albania-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-mobile-euronews-albania-1.png","width":280,"height":33,"caption":"Euronews Albania"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.al\/","https:\/\/x.com\/euronewsalbania"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/444d280f35e047949b7f0bc08093608f","name":"Nen Si","sameAs":["http:\/\/euronews.al\/en"],"url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/author\/nensi\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}