{"id":64454,"date":"2024-01-09T21:06:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=64454"},"modified":"2024-01-09T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:06:56","slug":"former-health-minister-leaves-prosecutors-office-after-9-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/former-health-minister-leaves-prosecutors-office-after-9-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Health Minister leaves Prosecutor\u2019s Office after 9 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Minister of Health, Ilir Beqaj, left the premises of SPAK (Special Prosecutor&#8217;s Office) after about 9 hours of being summoned to the Special Prosecutor&#8217;s Office this morning.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the media, Beqaj said that the interrogation sessions will continue.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister emphasized that the prosecutors had confirmed that they would return the items that had been seized at the end of December.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we communicated with the prosecutors and they told me that I will soon have the items that were seized from me. The two documents of a trip abroad that I received today. Today, the fact that Gazi and annex eight are related to sterilization and have nothing to do with the other issue was clarified,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, the GJKKO (Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime) left in force the insurance measure &#8220;Compulsion to appear&#8221; and &#8220;Prohibition of exiting the country&#8221; for the former minister Beqaj.<\/p>\n<p>Beqaj is suspected of having committed &#8220;abuse of duty in cooperation&#8221; during the procedures for granting a concession of 100 million dollars for 10 years by the Ministry of Health, which he headed, of integrated services for hospital surgical sterilizations.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Beqaj rejected the accusations, but underlined that he will be placed at the disposal of justice to reveal the truth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Minister of Health, Ilir Beqaj, left the premises of SPAK (Special Prosecutor&#8217;s Office) after about 9 hours of being summoned to the Special Prosecutor&#8217;s Office this morning. In a statement to the media, Beqaj said that the interrogation sessions will continue. The former minister emphasized that the prosecutors had confirmed that they would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":64456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[3737,5711,243,151,3185,362,5710],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former Health Minister leaves Prosecutor\u2019s Office after 9 hours - 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-health-minister-leaves-prosecutors-office-after-9-hours\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Health Minister leaves Prosecutor\u2019s Office after 9 hours - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The former Minister of Health, Ilir Beqaj, left the premises of SPAK (Special Prosecutor&#8217;s Office) after about 9 hours of being summoned to the Special Prosecutor&#8217;s Office this morning. 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