Malta’s Standards Commissioner, Joseph Azzopardi, has raised serious concerns over Minister Silvio Schembri’s conduct during an ethics probe, suggesting that the Minister lied about deploying public employees to staff his constituency offices. Despite uncovering inconsistencies and concluding that Schembri’s statements were untruthful, the Commissioner stopped short of formally ruling that the Minister had breached the Ministerial Code of Ethics, triggering public criticism over the perceived lack of accountability....

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