The man who blew the whistle on the Transport Malta driving corruption 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 by lawyer Jason Azzopardi, Adel Ali Hassan, who provided interpreter services to Arabic, Frech, Italian and Hebrew speaking driving test candidates at Transport Malta, claims that an unnamed high ranking state official at the Presidential palace had warned his client to “be careful, because you’re treading on many toes and they will do what they did to Daphne to you.”
Hassan, who had lived in Malta since 2006, had become well acquainted with high-ranking officials in the Partit Laburista, earning their trust and establishing himself in the party’s structures. He would be asked to organise meetings between groups of people and the “highest officials” of the party, which at the time was still in Opposition, and would collect donations for it.
Hassan had “personally found out about a stratagem that is essentially a criminal conspiracy, led by an organisation that was effectively a criminal one, that would allow people who had failed their driving tests, to still be declared as having passed because they were recommended by high-ranking officials in government Ministries and several government Ministers.”
Transport Malta had first started using Hassan’s services in 2015. His lawyers said that around 15 days before the tests, he...
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