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John Dalli bid for €1 million in damages dismissed by EU court Former EU Commissioner again denied by EU Court in his third bid to claim damages for his 2012 resignation 25 February 2021, 10:30am by Matthew Vella The European Union’s court of justice has rejected a claim by former European Commissioner John Dalli for €1 million in damages caused by what he said was “unlawful conduct” by the European Commission as a result of the termination of his office. The General Court of the ECH dismissed the appeal, rejecting all seven arguments invoked by Dalli: six of them related to the c...

The nearly decade-old scandal involves a former circus owner soliciting bribes from smokeless tobacco companies on behalf of the EU’s then-health commissioner. John Dalli, former Maltese politician and European health commissioner, at the 2011 Christians in the Holy Land conference. (Photo by Catholic Westminster, CC BY 2.0, Link) LUXEMBOURG (CN) — The European Union’s former health commissioner John Dalli lost his final appeal before the bloc’s high court Thursday in a nearly decade-old bribery scandal. On Thursday, the European Court of Justice upheld a lower court ruling that dis...

Dalligate affair resurrected in claims by Dutch inmate who taped Melvin Theuma Dalligate protagonists Silvio Zammit and John Dalli hit out at allegations of having used services by Julian Hofstra on a series of email exchanges 30 January 2021, 1:59pm by Nicole Meilak Maltese police have been given information about a Dutch scam artist incarcerated in the Netherlands, about services he rendered to Silvio Zammit, the restaurateur implicated in the Dalligate affair. In 2015, at the age of just 16 and on the run from justice in the Netherlands, Julian Hofstra found himself in Malta with the cash...

Former EU Commissioner John Dalli had passed on a pitch about an LNG power station project, similar to the one eventually undertaken by Electrogas, to former prime minister Lawrence Gonzi in October 2008. A letter obtained by Times of Malta shows Dalli, who at the time served as minister for social policy, had told Gonzi he could speak to eventual Electrogas investor Paul Apap Bologna for further details about the proposed project. A former official from the PN administration told Times of Malta that Enemalta had undertaken some preliminary analysis about the proposal but had not taken it a...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Sunday. The Sunday Times of Malta reveals that junior minister Rosianne Cutajar is being chased to repay more than €46,000 in brokerage fees she is alleged to have received as part of a property sale to business mogul turned murder suspect Yorgen Fenech. The newspaper also gives front-page prominence to news that former minister and EU commissioner John Dalli had passed on a pitch for a power station project to then-prime minister Lawrence Gonzi. Malta Today also breaks news of Cutajar being chased by a property seller for  refund on b...