Simon Busuttil said yesterday he was never told of the “works for votes” scam despite a meeting two years ago with the contractor making the allegations.

The Nationalist Party leader said he met Gozitan contractor Joe Cauchi, the whistleblower in this case, in 2013 but the alleged scam was never mentioned to him.

“When Mr Cauchi met me, just two months after I was elected party leader, his complaint was that he was still awaiting payment for work carried out as a contractor during the previous administration,” Dr Busuttil said when asked about this meeting.

The meeting happened a full year before Mr Cauchi raised the allegations in an email to PN secretary general Chris Said.

Read more in Times of Malta.

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