An Enemalta manager responsible for overseeing the corporation’s revenues has been suspended in an investigation into hundreds of misplaced files relating to electricity theft worth €2 million.

The official is the first senior employee within the corporation to be suspended since revelations were made of large-scale electricity theft.

The 665 misplaced files, discovered in four boxes recently, detail confirmed electricity theft that goes back to between 2006 and 2011, when old meters (not Smart meters) were used.

The police had been brought in and the meters were changed, but no action was ever taken and the amounts owed were never recovered. Nor were those responsible prosecuted.

What the official admitted to, however, was concealing dozens of files where consumers were owed money.

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