Electrogas shareholder Paul Apap Bologna invoked his right to silence infront of the Public Accounts Committee when confronted over questions on his offshore company Kittiwake and Yorgen Fenech s 17 Black.
During the meeting on Wednesday, Nationalist MP Karol Aquilina asked Apap Bologna whether he owned any foreign companies that were involved in the Electrogas projects, alluding to his secret United Arab Emirates company that is identical to 17 Black.
Aquilina asked whether there had been any agreement between 17 Black and Kittiwake, whereby Kittiwake was being used to funnel payments to a third party.
When Aquilina put forward the first question asking about foreign companies, Apap Bologna s lawyer Gianella Demarco immediately said that he will be invoking his right to silence.
A law allowing the public access to government documents needs to be amended to remove certain hurdles, information and data protection chief Ian Deguara has said. The FOI legislation is what it is. To me, it needs to be revised, he said.
Malta s FOI law was first enacted in 2008 and brought into force in 2012.
Ganado Meets Tech, Deguara acknowledged the current freedom of information law has a number of exemptions, many of which are not subject to the public interest test.
One of his proposals is to remove public authorities’ right to appeal an order granting the data commissioner access to a document, to decide on the validity or otherwise of an FOI request.
For the umpteenth time, Maltese taxpayers have been swindled out of hundreds of millions of euros due to malfeasance in public procurement.
The National Audit Office released a 117-page report slamming St Vincent de Paul Residence for breaching procurement law. The long-term care facility awarded a hefty direct order of €274 million, through a negotiated procedure undertaken directly with a consortium formed between a db Group subsidiary and James Catering Ltd, for the building and operation of a kitchen and four residential blocks accommodating 504 residents.
The government refused to publish the controversial contract that was entered into on November 14, 2017, under the pretext of commercial secrecy.
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