Tag: Josette Schembri Vella

Good Friends: Maltese Taxpayers’ Monies Squandered By Malta Gaming Authority

Malta Financial Services Authority Ben - August 25, 2022

Disgraced Joseph Cuschieri, who led the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA), was busy on a spending spree from taxpayers’ monies. Cuschieri was not just busy touring the world with his friend and colleague Edwina Licari, from public funds but was also promoting himself in flashy magazines. An interview with a Maltese lifestyle magazine owned by Josette Schembri Vella, the wife of Keith Schembri, who was the chief of staff of Malta’s former Prime Minister, did cost taxpayers more than €2,200.

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