Nine contracts amounting to more than €1 million in EU agricultural funds were signed in the week before the last general election, The Sunday Times of Malta has learnt.

The contracts guaranteed the allocation of funds, most of which amounted to €150,000: the maximum allowed under funding stream Measure 123 that aims to “add value to agricultural products”.

The local paying agency for these funds would not confirm whether any other funds were allocated under other agricultural funding streams that make up the European Commission’s Rural Development Programme for Malta 2007 to 2013.

Nor would it confirm the total amount allocated to the nine contracts signed under Measure 123 in the days before the election.

Former rural affairs minister George Pullicino said he had no knowledge of the contracts signed.

Read more in The Sunday Times of Malta.

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