{"id":18041,"date":"2021-07-26T12:02:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T10:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=18041"},"modified":"2021-07-26T14:40:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T12:40:02","slug":"criminals-meddling-with-public-tenders-says-socialist-elected-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/criminals-meddling-with-public-tenders-says-socialist-elected-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Criminals meddling with public tenders\u2019, says Socialist elected MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Socialist elected MP Petro Ko\u00e7i testified in front of the Special Structure Against Corruption over his declarations that elements of organized crime from the city of Fier are seizing public funds.<\/p>\n<p>Ko\u00e7i said that the allegations were based after meeting with the electorate in Fier and that he could not point out specific names amid a lack of substantial evidence.<\/p>\n<p data-min-tv-running=\"true\">&#8220;My stance is not to settle any account against politicians, but criminals&#8221;, Ko\u00e7i said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The majority of the officials in Fier didn&#8217;t welcome my declaration and this implies that it is true so it hurts them&#8221;, he added. &#8220;I will continuously be that politician that does the utmost for a clean political life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, politicians need to be supported so they don&#8217;t get suppressed by threats.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Ko\u00e7i took it to social media to claim that people with criminal backgrounds are using public tenders for money laundering as well as threatening state functionaries and competitors.<\/p>\n<p>He also reiterated these allegations during an interview on Euronews Albania, describing the organized crime groups as becoming more solid as the years go by, putting their illicit wealth in the construction industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrug trafficking protagonists have now legalized business subjects that win public tenders\u201d, Ko\u00e7i <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/petro.koci.94\/posts\/10225542692583520\">wrote on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do this either through direct ties with directors in various institutions or by intimidating specific officials that carry out procurements as well as eliminating competitors in the tender process\u201d, he explained.<\/p>\n<p>His public accusation came on July 16, ten days after SPAK arrested the mayor of Lushnja, and some of his subordinates, on corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/16\/petro-koci-here-are-the-three-methods-used-by-criminal-world-to-profit-from-public-tenders\/\">Petro Ko\u00e7i: These are the three methods used by criminal world to profit from public tenders<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/22\/unexperienced-workers-granted-access-to-administer-millions-of-euros-for-public-tenders\/\">Unexperienced workers granted access to administer millions of euros for public tenders<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/21\/employees-issuing-millions-for-public-tenders-caught-in-between-irregular-hiring-policies\/\">Employees issuing millions for public tenders caught in between irregular hiring policies<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialist elected MP Petro Ko\u00e7i testified in front of the Special Structure Against Corruption over his declarations that elements of organized crime from the city of Fier are seizing public funds. Ko\u00e7i said that the allegations were based after meeting with the electorate in Fier and that he could not point out specific names amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":18049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","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>\u2018Criminals meddling with public tenders\u2019, says Socialist elected MP - 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\/criminals-meddling-with-public-tenders-says-socialist-elected-mp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Criminals meddling with public tenders\u2019, says Socialist elected MP - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Socialist elected MP Petro Ko\u00e7i testified in front of the Special Structure Against Corruption over his declarations that elements of organized crime from the city of Fier are seizing public funds. 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