PM would have won Grammy Award for his Gaffarena case action last week, PN says

The Prime Minister would have won the best actor award for sending the police nine months late to secure files at the Government Property Division related to the Gaffarena case, the PN said today. The party spokesman on planning, Ryan Callus, said the search conducted last week by the police should have happened last year when the first allegations on the Gaffarena scandal appeared in the media in May. He accused the Prime Minister of 'covering up for the corruption' that took place at the property department. "The government dragged its feet and whoever wanted to hide his tracks had ample time to do so," Mr Callus said. He was addressing the media outside the offices of the Government Property Division at Auberge de Baviere in Valletta alongside PN candidate Mark Anthony Sammut. Mr Callus insisted the National Audit Office found ample examples of documents and minutes that seemed to have been touched up. With reference to the Prime Minister's decision to suspend government property transfers, Mr Sammut said people were now paying the price for corruption. He said department workers were being treated like criminals when those who should have felt so were welcomed with...

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