Lawyer and former PN MP Jason Azzopardi has filed another request for a magisterial inquiry into Gozo Minister Clint Camilleri, the Times of Malta reports.
This request is for an inquiry over an Olympic-sized swimming pool and aquatic centre that ran €8 million over budget. It is the third request for a magisterial inquiry into the minister that Azzopardi has filed, it reads.
The Times states that the former PN MP said there is reasonable suspicion of deliberate mismanagement to transfer funds belonging to the public into private hands.
Construction costs for the project amounted to over €17 million, when they were meant to cost €9 million, the report states.
“What interest and motivation did the individuals mentioned have, and still have, in finding ways to double the expenditure of public funds for such a project for no reason at all, if not because they have a private interest in matters entrusted to them due to their office,” It reports Azzopardi as having said.
The Times reports Azzopardi as also pointing out that concrete sourced from an illegal batching plant was used.
The request for an inquiry also asks that Gozo permanent secretary John Borg be investigated.
The report reads that Azzopardi requested that the magistrate look for evidence related to corruption, abuse of public office and embezzlement among other things.
