Labour backbencher Alex Muscat said that he is not surprised with the serious allegations made by a whistleblower who the former junior minister for citizenship claimed was not entitled to Maltese citizenship.
On Tuesday, a former Transport Malta official who acted as a whistleblower on the authority’s driving tests scandal filed a court application in which he is asking to testify against his former colleagues, making a number of serious accusations in his application.
The accusations include a practice that appears to constitute electoral fraud, as well as the fraudulent issuing of Maltese IDs. He claimed that the names and ID numbers of dead Maltese citizens of foreign origin were being transferred to other foreign nationals, enabling them to “vote for the Labour Party.”
The man who exposed a suspected driving licence racket filed an application through his lawyers Jason Azzopardi and Kris Busietta requesting the court to testify in the ongoing proceedings against three Transport Malta officials on Tuesday.
The Palestinian national who had been living in Malta since 2006 and was a Labour Party activist had his Malta residency permit revoked after showing displeasure that his claims were being ignored.
In his court application, the whistleblower said that in August 2021, he met then-parliamentary secretary responsible for citizenship in Mosta. He said that Muscat asked the man to canvass for him in the upcoming general election.
But soon after the whistleblower refused...
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