A criminal investigation should be launched into a €15,000 contract Education Minister Justyne Caruana gave her close friend Daniel Bogdanovic who lied about having done the work he was paid for, an ethics report has found. In a damning report, Commissioner for Standards in Public Life George Hyzler details how the minister abused her power in awarding a contract to Bogdanovic, a former footballer. The report, which found the minister breached ethics rules, lays out bare how although Bogdanovic was paid handsomely to review the National Sports School, he had not even written the report himself and then repeatedly lied about it when questioned. The report says there was a “concerted effort to hide Bogdanovic’s incompetence” and that the work he was handsomely paid to carry out was in fact done by one of Caruana’s consultants, Paul Debattista. Daniel Bogdanovic Hyzler recommends that parliament’s standards committee release the report and consider referring it to the police over the potential violation of the criminal code, which could see anyone found guilty liable for up to six months in prison. “It is my understanding that Minister Justyne Caruana used her discretion in a way...