No case to answer: No charges for Toni Bezzina in corruption probe
Police investigation into allegations Nationalist MP coerced government employees to carry out works at Zurrieq PN club, closed without charges.
15 May 2021, 3:41pm
by Matthew Agius
The police investigation into Nationalist MP Anthony Bezzina has been closed and no charges will be brought against him.
Bezzina was alleged to have coerced government employees in the Public Works department to carry out works at the Nationalist Party club in Żurrieq ahead of the Local Council elections of 2012.
The matter, which allegedly occurred in the run-up to local council elections, had been reported in newspapers
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Nationalist MP Anthony Bezzina has described the corruption investigation being pursued against him as a “political frame up”.
After an almost four-hour interrogation session at the Financial Crime and Investigation Department, Bezzina suggested to journalists that the corruption allegations being brought against him are false accusations.
“This is a political frame up against me, now one hopes that certain things come out relating to what happened and what didn’t happen - and by who this happened, that is important,” he told journalists after exiting the FCID on Monday afternoon.
Bezzina is alleged to have coerced government employees in the Public Works department to carry out works at the Nationalist Party club in Żurrieq ahead of the Local Council elections of 2012.
Nationalist MP Anthony Bezzina faces criminal action over 2012 Zurrieq club works
Nationalist MP was alleged to have used public works employees to give Zurrieq PN club a fresh coat of paint
8 April 2021, 8:37am
by Matthew Vella
A Nationalist MP is expected to face criminal proceedings over works carried out by public sector employees under his purview, on the Nationalist Party club of Zurrieq in 2012.
Anthony Bezzina, a long-time employee of the government public works department, said he has never been questioned by the police in eight years since the allegations first surfaced.
But a concluded inquiry into the allegations have green-lit police action, MaltaToday has been told.