"Obligation to appear" for Ilir Beqaj, "Thurja" Initiative: SPAK to go to the end of the investigation for the 'Sterilization' concession, inflated costs

The Special Court (GJKKO) has ordered the appearance obligation for the former Minister of Health, Ilir Beqaj, for the sterilization concession, while the former/Deputy Minister of Health Klodian Rrjepaj, the businessman Ilir Rrapaj are in prison since August 2023. Regarding this yesterday, in a television interview, Pano Soko from the "Thurje" Initiative said that SPAK should go to the end of this investigation. Soko stressed that the process should not be delayed in order to save as much money as possible from the sterilization concession. "Longest process after SPAK, almost 4 years. Why it is important to close the investigation as soon as possible. So that we can save as much money as possible from the suspension of the concession work. It is still active today as we speak. We do not have a definitive decision on the suspension of work. The costs are inflated, 500 lek a bottle of water. He used 500 lek for water. The other 450 lek where they took it, went not only to the owner of the concession, if you trace the money from account to account, this money ended up with those who gave the approval", he declared. Soko further emphasized that the costs in the sterilization concession are inflated compared to the time when this process was developed by the state itself. "The fact that sterilization itself has been applied before. The costs that were applied before the granting of the concession were 250,000 euros per year. There may have been problems, but there were. With the entry into force of the concession contract, they reached about 17 million euros. The second impetus, payments for hospital equipment were limited. "Many hospitals started refusing to perform operations due to the lack of budget to pay the concessionaire," Soko underlined.