The Special Court passed the "Sterilization" file for trial and defendants Ilir Beqaj, Klodian Rrjepaj and Ilir Rrapaj will face trial on charges of "theft by abuse of office" and "structured criminal group".
During his speech before the Court, Beqaj accused the trial judge of intentionally damaging the due process of law and his rights.
Beqaj also said that the judge's decision is politically influenced, as according to the former minister, he was applauded by former Prime Minister Sali Berisha and DP MP Albana Vokshi.
He added that the accusations against him, but also against Mr. Klodian Rjepaj and Mr. Ilir Rrapaj, are fabricated and, according to Beqaj, they are unable to defend themselves.
While the court was in the deliberation room, former Minister Beqaj and his lawyer left the court, writes A2 CNN.
"What does it matter whether I stole or not? In fact, what is important is that the DP now has the mouth to claim that I am a thief because until now, abuse of office could not stand on its own feet," said Beqaj, among other things.
Beqaj's full speech:
In summary of my speech, I emphasize that:
1. First, you as the judge of the preliminary hearing have deliberately and irreparably damaged the due process of law and my procedural rights. My lawyer and I are unable to defend ourselves effectively in the deliberate and repeated absence of a reasoned interim decision on new charges based on new facts unsupported by any evidence. Your invitation to defend ourselves against these charges is fictitious and is intended to deceive the due process of law as if our procedural rights were respected and we were clear about the charge. But this is not true. We are not deliberately informed by you and not even the prosecution has clearly understood your decision-making.
Not only me, but also Mr. Klodian Rjepaj and Mr. Ilir Rrapaj, cannot defend ourselves against unexplained, unwritten accusations that will never be written, but will also be said orally, unsupported by any fact in the accusation and unsupported by any concrete evidence.
2. Secondly, you have been influenced in this process and your decision-making proves this. The influence is clearly political, conformist, personal and social. Your decision-making has been applauded by both Mr. Sali Berisha and Ms. Albana Vokshi, because you have supported their political accusations. Meanwhile, your decision-making also fits the previous illegal decision-making of Judge Erion Bani, even though everything is now time-barred.
What does it matter whether I stole or not? In fact, what is important is that the DP now has the mouth to claim that I am a thief because until now, even abuse of office could not stand on its own.
3. Thirdly, you have not served the full disclosure of the truth at all, but you wanted to prove only the truth predetermined by you. You, like the prosecution, continue to inexplicably divide and fragment the phase of the conclusion and implementation of the contract as two separate issues, when in essence, if you read the indictment, it is more than half the implementation of the contract. For you, it is of no importance to properly prove, with or without expertise, the damage, any figure, the number of operations 50 or 63 thousand, the source of the increase in costs (FSDKSH), the source of payments outside the contractual provisions for energy and water (FSDKSH), the incalculable benefit of this concession in savings, in financial and health benefits (in life).
4. Fourth, you clearly paved the way for an artificial division of the case. That the three of us remain in the Special Court while the others go to the Ordinary Court. Therefore, whether the charges of theft and organized criminal group are proven or not, is of little importance to you. What is important is that the cases be separated.
5. Fifth, you have no hesitation in taking as much personal and media advantage as you can from this case and from my name, just like Judge Erjon Bani. You want to appear to the public as the judge who delivered justice. Who directed the investigations on the right track. Who revealed what the prosecutors hid. In fact, it is the opposite. You are ruining everything. With investigations, with trials and with accusations in an illegal manner.
For all of the above, I cannot defend myself, but I can only denounce. (A2 Televizion)
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