The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.

Times of Malta says a firm owned by the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Keith Schembri, won seven contracts between 2004 and 2011 and another six between 2013 and last year, with a total value of over €362,000, to supply paper to the government. In another story, it says the Planning Authority is turning away architects filing Development Notifications Order submissions as no applications are being accepted until the minister approves a new legal notice in place.

The Malta Independent says that following several attempts by media outlets to establish whether HSBC 2013 documents found in the Panama Papers, pertaining to the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Keith Schembri and his business associate Malcolm Scerri, were authentic or fraudulent, the bank has finally come out stating that these were authentic.

L-Orizzont says that the government plans to restore the Addolorata Cemetery and extend it through the development of 2,888 new graves.

In-Nazzjon says that mysteries surround Egrant, the Maltese Panama company set up at the same time as companies belonging to Minister Konrad Mizzi and the PM’s chief of staff Keith Schembri.