The Maltese Herald has been a regular reporter about events at Malta’s prison facility, the Kordin Correctional Services facility. We investigated Svetlana Muscat and Yorgen Fenech’s prison privileges well before they were reported in the mainstream press.
Prisons are a hive for intelligence and primary sources so it is normal that both journalists and intelligence services would have ears and eyes in prison facilities. The Malta Security Service are unhappy that I have this access to information in prison so they are clamping down on prison officials and employees by interrogating them informally in the hope of finding the leaker.
Work conditions have also been made stricter with more approvals needed for daily tasks, but the addition of trusted Labour-personnel in positions of authority at prison is demoralising many professionals. There seems to be a lot of dissatisfaction and mistrust between prison officers and the administration and this is adding to further stress and dissatisfaction.
On the other hand, the MSS should also understand, that my sources are not necessarily the staff or prison guards, apart from the fact that they have no business in looking for these kind of leaks given that this website, is clearly, not a national security threat. I suggest the MSS to worry more about serial money-launderers with a diplomatic passport who have connections with the Chinese government, but I’m not expecting them to understand, nor do their job correctly, considering their corrupt political loyalties.
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