Nationalist MP Beppe Fenech Adami on Monday demanded that the Home Affairs Minister explain what the police have done after Times of Malta revealed a potential €2 million bribery scandal involving the tender for the Marsa junction works. Speaking in parliament, Fenech Adami also demanded a detailed explanation how a four-year-old girl on a migrants’ boat in Malta’s search and rescue zone was allowed to die of thirst because no one conducted a sea rescue for four days. Fenech Adami said the minister was adopting the usual cliché that those who had evidence (about the Marsa road works claims) should go to the police. Yet, it should be the police who should be investigating. "Had the authorities sent for the former chief of staff, or for the former prime minister to ask them if they knew anything? Did they know how the €40 million tender was awarded to one bidder and not the other?" Meanwhile, Prime Minister Robert Abela, questioned by reporters outside parliament, said he had no knowledge of any investigation by EU authorities on the project, which was co-funded by the European Union. He said he had only learnt of the allegations from the newspaper. Pressed about whether due...
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