TIRANA, June 3 – The investigators of the National Bureau of Investigation in cooperation with the Special Operational Force in the General Directorate of the State Police, under the direction and control of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, arrested red-handed the citizens J. D., Secretary General of Ministry of Health and Social Protection and citizen L. Sh., high-level specialist in the Agency for the Provision of Integrated Public Services on Friday, said SPAK in a statement released on Saturday.
SPAK informed that evidence has been gathered from the follow-up with special investigation methods which evidenced that an economic operator would give an irregular benefit (in the form of monetary amounts) in order to be declared the winner in a procurement procedure held by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.
The procurement in question was the supervision for the reconstruction of several health centers in the districts of Tirana and Durrës.
“After carrying out some investigative actions, suspicions arose that citizen J.D., acting as Secretary General of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, received an irregular benefit in the amount of 330,000 lek to favor an economic operator. These monetary values were given by the citizen L. Sh., a high-level specialist in the Agency for the Provision of Integrated Public Services,” said the SPAK statement.
Also, it was possible to seize as material evidence the sum of 330,000 lek, a sum which constitutes the irregular benefit given by the citizen L. Sh., in the office of the General Secretary. /argumentum.al
