These are the main stories featured in Sunday’s newspapers.
The Sunday Times of Malta says an international fishing giant with a foothold in Malta is at the centre of an illegal tuna racket worth €20 million a year. In another story, the newspaper says Peppi Azzopardi, producer of the popular TV programme Xarabank, is “taking legal advice” and considering his next steps after a magistrate on Friday ordered him to keep two interviews off air.
The Malta Independent on Sunday says the Italian authorities made another arrest on Friday and seized €55 million in assets linked to the 'dirty oil' investigation in which Maltese nationals Darren Debono and Gordon Debono were arrested last October.
MaltaToday says the whistleblower who wrote to Olaf requesting he furnish information on financial irregularities says tax-declared salaries were inflated so that a portion of the EP budget was retained by the MEPs office.
Illum says most police stations in Gozo are closed.
Il-Mument says PN leader Adrian Delia will reply to the Budget speech in Parliament on Monday. He will say that the government failed to help workers, families, youths and pensioners.
It-Torċa and Kullħadd analyse Budget measures to see what different categories of people will be getting.