Tista' taqra bil- Malti.

The former Transport Malta official who acted as a whistleblower on the authority’s driving tests scandal has written to the magistrate compiling evidence to explain that he had fled the Maltese islands because he feared for his life.

In an application filed on Tuesday afternoon, the man’s lawyer Jason Azzopardi, said that when the whistleblower opened up to a “senior official of the state” at the Palace in Valletta, he was told to be careful, “because you are stepping on many toes and you will end up like Daphne.”

Adel Ali Hassan said he is ready to testify via video-conferencing, stating that he feared for his life should he return to Malta, and that such fears prompted him to leave the country in the first place.

Last month, the man made a number of serious allegations, including a practice that appears to constitute electoral fraud, as well as the fraudulent issuing of Maltese IDs. He also 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.”

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Hassan consequently made a declaration of about three hours before officials of the Financial crimes investigations Department (FCID) during which he spoke about this criminal scheme.

He also passed on various documents proving what he is alleging, as well as details about meetings he declared he had with...

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