The police have never detected cases of phone tapping, Home Affairs Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici said in reply to a parliamentary question today.

He said that although several reports were made to the police, investigations had always yielded a negative result.

(MPs Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Evarist Bartolo were among those who complained of suspected phone tapping last year. They filed their complaints in February, during the divorce campaign)

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