Independent MP Rosianne Cutajar said the Commissioner for Standards has dropped his inquiry into a consultancy job she was awarded with the Institute for Tourism Studies (ITS) in 2019.

In a Facebook post on Friday, Cutajar said she received a letter from the commissioner telling her that the case is considered closed and he will not pursue any investigations.

“This was another attempt by the same group of people who systematically and aggressively attacked me on a political and personal level to ostracise me from my political and Labour activie case was about a 2019 consultancy job she held with the ITS.

The complaint, filed by NGO Repubblika, was about her omission to list income from this consultancy in her parliamentary declaration of assets.

News of this consultancy emerged after leaked WhatsApp chats between Cutajar and Yorgen Fenech, who is accused of the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Cutajar, a backbencher at the time, felt entitled to this extra government job. “Everyone else is pigging out,” she had told Fenech in the chats.

The consultancy at a €27,000-per-year rate was not listed in her declaration to Parliament.

The chats eventually led to her resignation from the Labour Party parliamentary group. She remains an independent MP.