The former Minister of Health, Ilir Beqaj , had to cancel the sterilization concession contract, as the winning company gave a higher offer than the value determined by the contracting authority.
He did not take any measure for the commissioning of the sterilization center, which would be more economically advantageous, but went directly to the procedure of granting the service for the sterilization of medical equipment with a concession.
He did not prevent the conflict of interest between businessman Ilir Rrapaj and former deputy minister Klodian Rjepaj, as well as taking actions that favored the winning company.
These are some of the violations that are suspected to have been committed by the former Minister of Health, Ilir Beqaj, who is officially being investigated for the criminal offense of "abuse of duty", committed in collaboration and for which the special court set the security measure. obligation to appear" and "prohibition to leave the country".
News 24 was able to provide details from the criminal file, where, among other things, it is reasoned that Ilir Beqaj, although he was aware of the modern sterilization center, set up at QSUT, did not take any measures to put it into operation.
He did not do any preliminary study to assess whether the operation of the sterilization center would be more economically advantageous.
Judge Erjon Bani, in the decision to set the security measure for Beqaj, clarifies that the minister should have ascertained the inflation of the costs, while violations were committed in the concession granting procedure, because the procedure followed for the case in question was not was provided by law.
The decision also analyzes the trips Ilir Beqaj made with the businessman Ilir Rrapaj, who owns 40 percent of the concession contract and is currently in prison for the same issue.
Former minister Beqaj is expected to appear before the court on Monday in the interrogation session. He stated that he does not appeal the decision, while he raised questions about the SPAK investigation, and on the other hand, he defended the sterilization concession.