A monitoring committee set up to scrutinise the process of selling Maltese citizenship to wealthy non-EU individuals has not met once since it was established last year.

The Prime Minister, who is in charge of the committee, has not yet set any date for the committee to meet.

The news comes after the government recently announced it was processing some 200 applications for Maltese citizenship.

The committee was set up last year and, apart from the Prime Minister, includes the Home Affairs Minister and the Opposition leader.

Opposition leader Simon Busuttil in a tweet this morning said: "I confirm that the Monitoring Committee has not even met once. Joseph Muscat just pays lip service to transparency."

Dr Muscat had told Parliament in November that he wanted the programme to be monitored to ensure the whole system was fully scrutinised.

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