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€60,000 contract before graduating for daughter of top Ian Borg adviser

Updated 1.30pm with Cassola, Azzopardi statements A daughter of one of Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg’s top advisers was handed a €62,400 contract by direct order to serve as a junior lawyer with the ministry – months before obtaining her warrant. Jesmond Zammit’s daughter, Adreana Zammit, was awarded the lucrative contract on October 24, 2019. She graduated as a lawyer two months later and only received her warrant in January, according to her own social media posts. Zammit was then awarded an additional direct order in August last year for a “legal consultation agreement” that lasted six months and netted the junior lawyer another €46,142.

Abela seeks facts before acting on €60,000 contract to adviser s daughter

Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Monday that he is looking into all the facts before making any decisions over a €60,000 direct order given to the daughter of a top ministry adviser.  “Any decisions that need to be taken, as I have done in the last 15 months, will be taken,” he told MaltaToday outside parliament, adding that he still has to establish all the facts surrounding the case. “I only found out about the case on Monday following the reports made by the media,” said Abela. Times of Malta broke the news that Jesmond Zammit’s daughter, Adreana Zammit, was awarded a €62,400 contract by direct order to serve as a junior lawyer with the ministry on October 24, 2019, months before she graduated as a lawyer or obtained her warrant to practice in court.

[WATCH] Prime Minister establishing facts before deciding on Ian Borg s direct order to adviser s daughter

However, he told MaltaToday that he still had to establish the facts surrounding the case.  The Times of Malta reported on Monday that Adreana Zammit, serving as a junior lawyer, had been awarded a €62,400 contract by the Transport Ministry through a direct order in October 2019, three months before receiving her warrant.  She was also awarded an additional €46,142 direct order in August 2020 for a six-month legal consultation agreement. The contracts earned Zammit at least €108,542.  Adreana Zammit is the daughter of Jesmond Zammit, Ian Borg s top adviser within his ministry. Speaking to MaltaToday outside parliament, Abela said that he only got to know of the case from the media report on Monday.  

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