The Malta Independent 9 May 2025, Friday
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Repubblika says Labour Party must declare that Rosianne Cutajar will no longer have a role with it

Tuesday, 28 November 2023, 19:39 Last update: about 2 years ago

NGO Repubblika on Tuesday said that the Labour Party must declare that independent MP Rosianne Cutajar will never again be affiliated to the PL, or contest as a candidate on behalf of the PL.

Repubblika said that the National Audit Office damning report into Cutajar’s consultancy job at ITS showed that she “and her friends” have robbed, defrauded and lied to everyone.

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“The report from the Auditor General on the supposed consultancy of Rosianne Cutajar at the ITS documents contempt towards the public funds of our country's administrators,” Repubblika said.

The NGO said that Cutajar committed fraud when she was a Member of Parliament. Former Minister Konrad Mizzi and Pierre Fenech, who led the ITS, aided her, Repubblika alleged.

“When the Auditor investigated, they tried to cover for her and also covered their tracks,” it said.

The group said that Cutajar knew that what she was doing was fraud and that she justified it in her Whatsapp chats to alleged murder mastermind Yorgen Fenech, saying that “everyone pigs out.”

The NGO described this was “pigging out” and that the pigging out were and are within the country's administration system, deeming it as institutionalised corruption.

Repubblika called for police to take action against “those thieves and liars” and for the ITS administration to be removed. Rosianne Cutajar must also pay back the money she received with interest.

“The Labour Party must declare that Rosianne Cutajar will no longer have a role in it or be a candidate for anything in its name,” the NGO said.

The National Audit Office on Tuesday issued a damning report about Rosianne Cutajar's former employment as a consultant by the Institute of Tourism Studies, stating that there were "concerns of negligence in the disbursement of public funds by all involved in this contrived engagement."

The report used the words 'irregular' and 'fraudulent' with reference to the nature of this employment. The report also highlights the NAO's concern that the contract had been backdated.

Cutajar, who was forced to resign from the Labour Party in April this year after chats between her and alleged Daphne Caruana Galizia murder mastermind emerged, insisted in comments outside Parliament that she had done nothing wrong.

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