"Beqaj has no apartment in Vlora", the former minister's lawyer reacts after the inspection by SPAK: It was a rented entrance

2024-07-24 23:11:01 / POLITIKË ALFA PRESS

"Beqaj has no apartment in Vlora", the former minister's lawyer
Ilir Beqaj's lawyer, Ermal Yzeiraj, in a reaction after SPAK's inspection of the apartment, which, as stated in the official announcement, belongs to the former minister, denies that his client has property in the coastal city.

According to Yzeriaj, Beqaj rented an apartment in 2020, but the contract has expired and Beqaj no longer uses that apartment.

"Today, on 24.07.2024, around 2:00 p.m., I, as the lawyer of Mr. Ilir Beqaj, I was contacted on the phone by the relevant SPAK officers, who asked me to be present at the inspection that would be done (according to them) of the house owned by Mr. Ilir Beqaj in Vlorë, also asking me to bring the key to this house from Tirana, as otherwise they would break down the door.

After I explained to the relevant SPAK officer that Mr. Ilir Beqaj does not own any apartment in Vlora, he apologized for having expressed himself wrongly and explained that it is about an apartment that Mr. Beqaj did not own it, but rented it according to a 2020 lease.

My answer was that if it is about the house that Mr. Beqaj had a lease and that he declared in ILDKPKI, this lease contract of 2020 is no longer in force and Mr. Ilir Beqaj hasn't been using this house for rent for a long time, so I, as a lawyer, had no reason to leave Tirana for Vlora to participate in the control of a flat that was owned and used by someone else and even a such request was completely illegal. Mr. Ilir Beqaj is neither the tenant nor the owner of this apartment. It doesn't even make logical sense that Mr. Let him be a user of this apartment when everyone knows that Mr. Ilir Beqaj is already in the detention facilities.

Such control is but a desperate attempt (at the level of an obsession) to find at all costs a reason that Mr. Ilir Beqaj should be kept in prison and shows that the reasons so far have not been as convincing as they were claimed to be. On the contrary, all actions so far for keeping Mr. Remand under security measures in prison are clearly contrary to the jurisprudence of the ECtHR.

The main question that everyone should ask SPAK at this moment, including the Court itself, is: on what evidence is the suspicion of the escape of Mr. Beqaj, of him breaking any test or committing any other criminal offense, when until now Mr. Beqaj stayed for months on the evidence, inside the premises of the Special Court and only contributed to their inventory (requested by the Special Court itself)??? We wish that the courts will reflect and not be mere notaries of this illegal hunting" , writes the lawyer in his response.

 

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