Bertu Pace suspended as police launch investigations

Bertu Pace, the consultant to Agriculture Parliamentary Secretary Roderick Galdes, has been suspended as the police have launched investigations into the controversial permit for his daughter for a villa outside development zones in Siggiewi. The police have confirmed they have started looking into the case to assess whether laws have been breached. The move follows an investigation into the permit after the Times of Malta flagged suspicions surrounding the planning authority's approval of the development of a 280-square-metre villa on some 10,000 square metres of agricultural land. The permit was issued in the name of Roderick Farrugia, the son-in-law of former Labour MP Bertu Pace – now Mr Galdes's consultant. The investigation by the Agriculture Department led to Mepa starting procedures to revoke the permit. Yet the Agriculture Parliamentary Secretary – whose consultant is at the centre of the investigation – has repeatedly refused to publish the findings. Last week, the secretariat said the report would be published after Mepa takes its decision. Despite Mepa's move, another request by this newspaper for the report was refused. The reply stated it "will be published in due...

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