The National Audit report on the Gaffarena scandal proved that this was the beginning of the end of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's government, Opposition leader Simon Busuttil said this morning. Speaking in Zejtun, Dr Busuttil said the report showed that the Prime Minister's movement's loyalty was not to the country but to himself and the interests of the few. The National Audit Office investigation started after the Times of Malta last May exposed an expropriation scandal involving businessman Mark Gaffarena, who partly owned a building in Old Mint Street, Valletta. The NAO concluded that former Parliamentary Secretary Michael Falzon had colluded with officials of the Government Property Department and Mr Gaffarena in the expropriation of half the building. "The report is very strong. It is clear proof that this government is in a corruption crisis… that we have the most corrupt government in history…" Dr Busuttil said that while the report used the word collusion, meaning an agreement which led to someone getting something that did not belong to him. The word for this in Maltese was corruption, he said. "There is corruption here…. Joseph Muscat's government is most corrupt...
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