Daughter of Ian Borg’s chief canvasser put on Michael Falzon’s payroll

The Shift Team - 21. August. 2023

Adreana Zammit, the young and relatively inexperienced lawyer and daughter of Minister Ian Borg’s chief canvasser Jesmond Zammit, has now been enrolled as a consultant for another ministry following a scandalous contract that was rescinded two years ago on the Prime Minister’s orders.

According to the latest information published in the Government Gazette, the lawyer who graduated in 2019 is now providing Social Policy Minister Michael Falzon with consultancy services and is being paid €6,000 for her services over an unspecified period of time.

Zammit, who specialised in aviation law, is guiding the ministry on its investigations into the abuse of social benefits.

Zammit hit the headlines in 2021 when an investigation conducted by The Shift revealed she had been recruited as a lawyer at Transport Malta before she even graduated.

Ian Borg had shrugged off responsibility for the contract and said he had nothing to do with it and Prime Minister Robert Abela, still in his early days at Castille, ordered Transport Malta to cancel it.

The contract was re-written a few months later and Zammit was placed on a €73,000 consultancy contract barely a year after graduation.

Her father, Jesmond Zammit, was the chief consultant and canvasser for then-Transport Minister Ian Borg at the time. He served as the main link between Ian Borg and Transport Malta and is known to have been involved in many scandals at the agency.

The newest list of Michael Falzon’s ministry’s direct orders reveals other interesting contracts handed out to acquaintances and friends.

These include €10,000 for Aaron Grech, a Central Bank official and the Deputy Chief of the Statistics Authority, €62,000 for David Spiteri Gingell, who has been on the state payroll for years, for ‘consultancy and project management’, and two direct orders for the IDEA Group owned by the former MCAST President Silvio Debono, who was forced to resign following various allegations of wrongdoing that included conflicts of interest.

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Paul Henry Berman

2 years ago

Its impressive how they do not employ a single person who is qualified to do a job, this way they can bully them to do what they want done with no questions asked. Even Mintoff had deputies who could do a job as he did not want idiots everywhere. They are well on the way to bankrupting Malta

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Bamboccu

2 years ago

Stupidagni u Hnizrija.
Meta tifla li gradwat fis sena 2019 qed toffri konsulenza lill Ministru li l professjoni tieghu hija dik ta’ avukat…
U avukat bl-esperjenza suppost!

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Mark

2 years ago

Unfortunately these unacceptable situations keep on happening and ,regretfully, i am somewhat sceptical that a new PN government would do anything different.

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Nicholas Borg

2 years ago

Could they do any worse?
Even if they do worse which is hard to imagine, it is still tthe same. If they do better then there is at least improvement!

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makjavel

2 years ago

No wonder only stupidities are coming out of the Circus .
Any new Legal Notice with a messed Maltese Version?
Maybe these baby lawyers should pass their class work to Norma Saliba for translation into the vernacular. She may learn something or two.

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John

2 years ago

A large concern to many

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charles camilleri

2 years ago

Always the same old story to defend the Govt. Putting both parties in the same pot. Did we have such obscenities from a Nats Govt in the past?

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Francis Said

2 years ago

Whilst enriching their friends of friends using taxpayers’ funds.
Governmental Human Resources:
It is not what you know but who you know.
Provided you are Labour leaning you will be employed by us!!!

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Marcus Bonello

2 years ago

And it goes on and on and on.I wonder what the opposition is playing at. Maybe not upsetting the opponent whilst making mistake after mistake?

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saviour mamo

2 years ago

Labour discovered that the course in Law at the university is the gateway to cronyism.

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Anne R. key

2 years ago

“Transport Malta and is known to have been involved in many scandals” whilst those with umpteen years of experience and knowledge are pushed aside……BRAVO!

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K Sammut

2 years ago

I will not vote because of these unacceptable situations, and many like Me will do; we didn’t vote labour, so these. Hniezer keeps sucking the economy, NOT ON MY DEAD BODY !!!!