Controls at Beqaj's apartment in Vlora/ Lawyer attacks SPAK

2024-07-24 21:26:00, Aktualitet CNA

Controls at Beqaj's apartment in Vlora/ Lawyer attacks SPAK

Beqaj's lawyer Ermal Yzeiraj

The defense lawyer of the former minister Ilir Beqaj, Ermal Yzeiraj, has reacted in relation to the controls of the BKH officers in the residence of the former minister in Vlora.

The lawyer has attacked SPAK and the Court declaring that they are not notaries of this illegal hunting.

The lawyer's full response:

Today, 24.07.2024, around 14:00, 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 control that would be done (according to them) to the house owned by Mr. Ilir Beqaj in Vlora, also asking me to bring them from Tirana and the key to this house, 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 clarified 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 Beqaj had a lease and that he declared in ILDKPKI, this lease contract of 2020 is no longer in force and Mr.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, that's why 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!/ CNA