Jacob Borg
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ODZ villa permit for Electrogas businessman
Electrogas businessman Mark Gasan is set to be given a permit to build a one-floor villa on secluded outside development zone land falling within Wied il-Ħesri in Żebbuġ, the Times of Malta has learnt. This follows a decision by the Environment...
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Watch: Accountancy Board head cagey when asked about Nexia BT
Different exercises were taking place, some public others not, the head of the accountancy regulator said when asked about apparent inaction against financial advisory firm Nexia BT. The Accountancy Board has been accused by MEP David Casa of...
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Konrad Mizzi demanded Panama Papers correspondence in 2016
Updated 8.15pm with Adrian Delia reaction below - Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi engaged an international reputation consultancy firm in April 2016 to gain access to all Panama Papers correspondence in which he and his Panama company were...
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Corruption costs Malta taxpayers €725m annually, say the European Greens
Corruption costs taxpayers in Malta €725 million every year – more than the entire amount spent on education, a study published on Friday by the European Greens has estimated. The study estimated that €904 billion are lost annually to corruption...
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2017 Electrogas contracts signed by Konrad Mizzi ‘for continuity’ – Energy Minister
Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi signed the latest contracts between the government and Electrogas last year “for continuity”, Energy Minister Joe Mizzi said on Thursday. In a voluminous investigation into the power station contracts tabled in...
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Nexia BT chief given €5,000 monthly as Justice Minister’s ‘person of trust’
The €60,000 contract was in Brian Tonna's name but the work was delegated to a ‘technical team’ from Nexia BT; 'Person of trust' contract with Justice Ministry overlapped with judicial inquiry into Tonna-Schembri kickback allegations; Tonna’s...
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Watch: Education Minister stands by call for Mizzi to resign
Education Minister Evarist Bartolo intimated on Tuesday he was still of the opinion that Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi should step down in the wake of the Panama scandal. Asked by the Times of Malta whether he still supported calls for Dr Mizzi to...
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Office to confiscate criminal assets took three years to be set up
Updated 4.30pm with minister's reaction below - A bureau set up to locate and confiscate criminal assets remained idle for close to three years, parliamentary questions show. In reply to a series of parliamentary questions by Nationalist Party MP...
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Body scanners to remove need for strip searches at the prisons
Strip searches of prisoners and visitors to the Corradino prison will soon become a thing of the past as body scanners are introduced, Home Affairs Minister Michael Farrugia said on Monday. Addressing a press conference, Dr Farrugia deplored the...
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Parliament Leaks: water seeping into Valletta building
MPs heading to parliament on a rainy day had better keep their waterproof jackets on once inside Malta’s highest institution because the building is known to leak during bad weather. Water trickled down from the ceiling in one room within the...
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