The conduct of Social Housing Minister Roderick Galdes is under renewed and intensifying examination following the emergence of detailed information about a discounted penthouse he acquired from contractors linked to his ministry, which was not listed in his publicly available Cabinet declarations of assets for 2021 and 2022. The omission, on its face, appears inconsistent with the requirements of the ministerial code of ethics and has raised important questions about transparency and public accountability within Malta’s executive branch....
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