{"id":27385,"date":"2021-12-14T21:40:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T20:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=27385"},"modified":"2021-12-14T21:40:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T20:40:24","slug":"ex-ministers-arrest-birn-editor-in-chief-superficial-investigation-other-incinerators-left-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/ex-ministers-arrest-birn-editor-in-chief-superficial-investigation-other-incinerators-left-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-minister\u2019s arrest, BIRN editor-in-chief: Superficial investigation, other incinerators left out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRN editor-in-chief, Besar Likmeta said on tonight\u2019s \u2018NOW\u2019 with Erla Mehilli that only one-tenth of what is being trumpeted as the \u2018Incinerators Affair\u2019 is included in the investigation professed earlier today by SPAK, which resulted in the former minister of environment, Lefta Koka\u2019s arrest due to his involvement in the Elbasan incinerator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incinerator in Elbasan only represents one of the contracts, amounting to \u20ac26 million euros. We also have the contract of Fier\u2019s [incinerator] that has a cost of \u20ac28 million euros and a contract of Tirana\u2019s incinerator that costs \u20ac450 million euros, because the period over which the project will be administered by the company is also included, and these are all costs that will ultimately be covered by taxpayers,\u201d \u2013 said Likemeta.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the lack of an actual investigation that includes the incinerators of Fier and Tirana is senseless, because it\u2019s the very same people that are involved in them.<\/p>\n<p>These two other contracts aren\u2019t addressed at all, said Likmeta, adding that the individuals and companies responsible could at this very moment, be hiding the evidence of all the violations they\u2019ve committed, thus escaping incrimination.<\/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\/12\/14\/lefter-kokas-arrest-spak-he-embezzled-over-e3-6-million-euros\/\">Ex-minister of environment\u2019s arrest, SPAK: He embezzled over \u20ac3.6 million<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/news\/2021\/12\/14\/how-did-ex-minister-of-environment-lefter-koka-abuse-his-office\/\">How did Lefter Koka abuse his power?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/shock\/2021\/12\/14\/kokas-arrest-bushati-a-make-believe-carefully-orchestrated-scheme-directed-from-above\/\">Koka\u2019s arrest, Bushati: A carefully orchestrated scheme directed from above<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRN editor-in-chief, Besar Likmeta said on tonight\u2019s \u2018NOW\u2019 with Erla Mehilli that only one-tenth of what is being trumpeted as the \u2018Incinerators Affair\u2019 is included in the investigation professed earlier today by SPAK, which resulted in the former minister of environment, Lefta Koka\u2019s arrest due to his involvement in the Elbasan incinerator. \u201cThe incinerator in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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