Ira Losco’s qualification for the Eurovision finals is on the front page of most national newspapers today.
Times of Malta also says a bank spokesman confirmed HSBC’s branch in Attard stopped banking operations 15 months before two reference letters were issued on behalf of the Prime Minister’s closest aide and a business associate. In another story, it says Marsascala residents are irked by the continued presence of seven large fish pens inside St Thomas Bay which first appeared there in February.
The Malta Independent says a former member of Michael Falzon’s private secretariat hounded the Government Property Division notary who was drafting the contracts in the Old Mint Street expropriation scandal.
MaltaToday says that the tax authorities will be opening a money laundering probe following the information divulged through the Panama Papers scandal.
L-Orizzont says that Justice Minister Owen Bonnici has submitted his nomination for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party, bringing the total number of candidates for the post to three.
In-Nazzjon reports about the Opposition leader's call for action by the Prime Minister following further revelations in the Panama Papers.