A journalist from ONE was among people mentioned in chats investigated in a corruption case concerning three Transport Malta officials as a possible candidate for whom help was solicited to get his driving licence, a court heard on Thursday. However, the police were still delving into the voluminous evidence and had not yet questioned the people behind the requests for assistance which triggered criminal charges against Clint Mansueto, a director at Transport Malta, as well as his subordinates Raul Antonio Pace and Philip Edrick Zammit. The trio are currently facing charges over an alleged racket whereby government ministries and private individuals sought help for particular candidates to pass their driving test. Police were first placed on the trail of the suspected corruption by a foreign interpreter, regularly called upon to assist non-Maltese and non-English candidates during their theory test. Although his task was to read out and translate questions, the interpreter claimed that several times he was contacted by the director, Mansueto, to go beyond his call of duty by pointing out the correct answers to candidates. That information was supplied to the police in 2020,...
