In 2023 SPAK started a criminal proceeding for the charge Passive corruption of persons exercising public functions; Active corruption of persons exercising public functions; Refusal to declare, non-declaration, concealment or false declaration of assets, private interests of elected persons and public servants or of any other person who has the legal obligation to declare
It is about a new file of SPAK, where the main investigator is Ermal Kurtulaj, in charge of EUSAIR project coordinator.
It is suspected that he managed the restaurant which was the hidden property of Beqaj, who from 2021 held the position of the State Agency for Strategic Programming and Aid Coordination (SASPAC).
Beqaj used the phone of his driver at the SASPAC agency, Arben Dani.
In the file, the conversations that Beqaj had with Kurtulaj about the Gzona restaurant in the Castle of Tirana have been published.
These doubts also arise from the conversation held on the date. 14.12.2023, 11:33, between Ermal Kurtulaj and the phone number belonging to Beqaj's driver, Arben Dani, but in this conversation the citizen llir Beqaj speaks, says SPAK
interceptions
A (Ermali)
B (Beqaj):
A: Travel, hello?
B: What is this mor man annex 8?
A: Do you remember me?
B: (Another person enters the conversation: "Yes, yes")...
A: There, I had registered it with annex 8 and this.
B: Well, I'm telling you that the table with investments is required now, as if what is required, the input
A: I saw that file that had annex 8 and I took it out.
B: What is required, brother, you know what is required, why is it wasted?
A: Yes, okay.
B: We have liquidated the table, it's called annex 8, where I know, now we have to find where it is, the offer doesn't matter, listen.
A: Yes, yes
B: Tell him if you can from 4 o'clock and back when you want.
A: From 4 o'clock and back?
B: Yes, if possible.
A: Well, what about Gazin?
B: Gazi, I mean Gazi.
A: About Gas, when I heard the word, I thought, well, okay then.
B: The other one too.
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A: The other one as well.
B: Yes
A: Well then, okay, okay then
B: Anyway, let's talk together at dinner.
A: In 4?
B: Yes