Tag: Standards Commissioner
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Hiding behind the Standards Commissioner (again)
Political party Momentum and NGO Repubblika have requested the Standards Commissioner to investigate the allegations made by Judge Lawrence Mintoff including those about the Paqpaqli case. The focus should be on the Prime Minister’s irregular meetings with the Judiciary – anything else is just a distraction and diversion. Under no normal circumstances should the Prime…
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Getting freebies from the state: Michelle Muscat
The money-laundering wife of ex-Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, Michelle Muscat, is getting preferential treatment over her NGO, namely the Marigold Foundation and the National Alliance for Rare Diseases. These two NGOs, which keep refusing to publish their accounts and disclose their financing, have been awarded a number of public sector employees to work for Michelle…
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All the Members of Parliament who were investigated over their declarations of assets
More on why the publication of Yorgen Fenech’s chats with Rosianne Cutajar is in the public interest. Before the government barred the regular publication of the Declaration of Assets submitted by members of parliament, the Commission for the Standards of Public Life was investigating various MPs over their declarations. The government shut down this practice…
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Alex Borg asked to apologise by the Standards Commissioner
Opposition MP Alex Borg has been asked to apologise by the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life after being found guilty of lying about the Fort Chambray project to justify his vote in the Public Accounts Committee. Alex Borg had claimed that the private concessionaires of Fort Chambray were responsible for the restoration of the…
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The Prime Minister’s latest purge: Prosecutors
In an unprecedented move that has rocked and effected changes to the Office of the Attorney-General and The Commissioner for Standards in Public Life, Prime Minister Robert Abela is effectively purging Prosecutors working on the cases related to investigations of the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life. Some of these cases include fraudulent declaration of assets…
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Threats to the Standards Commissioner are confirmed: government clamping down on multiple investigations
Stories in the press of threats to the Standards Commissioner by the Prime Minister can be confirmed by The Maltese Herald. The government has been clamping down on the Standards Commission due to several investigations that the commission had started on various MPs from both political parties. The Standards Commission also rejected an investigation into…
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Standards Commissioner denies request for investigation over discrepancies of the Prime Minister’s Declaration of Assets due to prescription
The Commissioner for Standards in Public Life denied Arnold Cassola’s request to investigate a discrepancy in the Prime Minister’s declaration of assets, citing that the complaint was time-barred after 30 days of the issue becoming publicly known. You can read his decision here. The discrepancy in the Prime Minister’s declaration of assets was originally my…
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Multiple scandals behind the declaration of assets: at least two Labour MPs are being investigated
This is the first time this year in many years that the government is late in presenting the declaration of assets of its MPs to Parliament. Multiple sources have confirmed with The Maltese Herald that the declaration of assets of at least two different Labour MPs are currently being investigated by the authorities. The investigations…
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“Ministers who breach ethics should get no compensation” – Arnold Cassola
Following revelations against Clayton Bartolo, his wife, and Clint Camilleri, there are increased calls for the Prime Minister Robert Abela to take immediate action to ensure that ministers who resign in disgrace are not given terminal benefits. In a statement this morning, Arnold Cassola insists that such benefits should be given only to those who…
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The conversations between Prime Minister Robert Abela and Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech are on WhatsApp
Can our Standards Commissioner be any more of a joke than he already is? His investigations are are just a pretense that ultimately serve to protect their subjects. Prime Minister Robert Abela didn’t speak to Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech once on a chance-encounter, he spoke with her regularly on WhatsApp before she was eventually forced…
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Breaking: Rosianne Cutajar is being investigated by the police for laundering money in Dubai
Joseph Caruana, the alleged corrupt and illiterate taxman who signed off a report exculpating Rosianne Cutajar of tax evasion will have a lot of explaining to do to the police. Maybe, he is going to pull off the excuse that he is illiterate and didn’t understand the documents he was given – that would be…
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PN seems to have been right about Standards Commissioner Joseph Azzopardi
This week the newly-appointed Standards Commissioner and previous chief justice, Joseph Azzopardi issued a very shocking and ridiculous ruling that argued that politically-appointed public officials are not politically exposed persons and therefore do not require scrutiny by his office. The Nationalist Party had objected to his appointment because it argued he was going to be…
