{"id":34051,"date":"2022-04-07T18:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=34051"},"modified":"2022-04-08T14:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T12:38:29","slug":"former-interior-minister-sentenced-to-10-months-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/former-interior-minister-sentenced-to-10-months-behind-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Former deputy Interior Minister sentenced to 10 months behind bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Court Against Corruption and Organized Crime handed on Thursday a 10-month prison sentence to former deputy interior minister Rovena Voda.<\/p>\n<p>Voda was arrested last year after receiving a bribe from someone who is eyeing a job in the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The court initially sentenced the former minister to 15 months in jail, but Voda will benefit from the abbreviated trial procedure and only serve 10 months.<\/p>\n<p>The other two defendants who were working as an accessory to Voda were also sentenced to 10 months each.<\/p>\n<p>Voda was found guilty by the court for \u2018exerting unlawful command influence toward public functionaries\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the case revealed that Voda received \u20ac1,000, a smartphone, and a crate of fish in order to hire Florida Beu as a specialist in the ministry.<\/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\/15\/spak-wiretaps-reveal-voda-used-ministerial-car-to-pick-up-alleged-corruptive-gains\/\">SPAK wiretaps reveal Voda used ministerial car to pick up alleged corruptive gains<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Court Against Corruption and Organized Crime handed on Thursday a 10-month prison sentence to former deputy interior minister Rovena Voda. Voda was arrested last year after receiving a bribe from someone who is eyeing a job in the ministry. The court initially sentenced the former minister to 15 months in jail, but Voda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":34052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[1177,1178,151,1176,362],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former deputy Interior Minister sentenced to 10 months behind bars - 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\/former-interior-minister-sentenced-to-10-months-behind-bars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former deputy Interior Minister sentenced to 10 months behind bars - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Special Court Against Corruption and Organized Crime handed on Thursday a 10-month prison sentence to former deputy interior minister Rovena Voda. 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