{"id":19724,"date":"2021-09-07T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=19724"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T13:30:02","slug":"high-court-overturns-spaks-request-to-arrest-cardiologist-edvin-prifti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/high-court-overturns-spaks-request-to-arrest-cardiologist-edvin-prifti\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court overturns SPAK\u2019s request to arrest cardiologist Edvin Prifti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court overturned on Tuesday a request made by SPAK asking the institution to resend to jail suspended cardiologist Edvin Prifti.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court also quashed Prifti\u2019s request to lift his suspension from duty. Prifti, who has been released on bail, is accused of corruption and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested after SPAK was investigating a judge from Kruja, involved in several high-profile criminals that had been unjustly released from jail.<\/p>\n<p>His name surfaced during a wiretap recording with the former judge, where the latter was asking him as a favor to assist in her mother\u2019s surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Court against Corruption and Organized Crime has currently frozen all of Prifti\u2019s bank accounts as well as assets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/27\/special-prosecution-closes-corruption-probe-of-former-kruja-judge\/\">Special Prosecution closes corruption probe on former Kruja judge<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/27\/dos-report-sees-corruption-in-the-judiciary-and-procurement-procedures-as-problematic\/\">DOS report sees corruption in the judiciary and procurement procedures as problematic<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/24\/we-werent-able-to-eradicate-corruption-from-the-healthcare-system-says-former-minister\/\">We weren\u2019t able to eradicate corruption from the healthcare system, says former minister<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court overturned on Tuesday a request made by SPAK asking the institution to resend to jail suspended cardiologist Edvin Prifti. The High Court also quashed Prifti\u2019s request to lift his suspension from duty. Prifti, who has been released on bail, is accused of corruption and money laundering. He was arrested after SPAK was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":19725,"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>High Court overturns SPAK\u2019s request to arrest cardiologist Edvin Prifti - 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\/high-court-overturns-spaks-request-to-arrest-cardiologist-edvin-prifti\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"High Court overturns SPAK\u2019s request to arrest cardiologist Edvin Prifti - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The High Court overturned on Tuesday a request made by SPAK asking the institution to resend to jail suspended cardiologist Edvin Prifti. 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