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With two of the Tranport Authority’s examiners and a driving school instructor officially charged with bribery, Transport Minister Jesmond Mugliett has appointed a board of investigation to establish how the authority dealt with the scandal internally from the day the allegations became known to it.
Entrusting the inquiry to a board headed by Louis Cilia, with Paul Attard and Richard Galea Debono as members, the minister asked them to establish the sequence of events that followed from the instance the authority management became aware of the scandal.
With a deadline set for 10 July, the board is also to establish whether the authority’s operational and procedural system has created the possibility of being abused.
In the terms of reference given to the inquiry board, the minister states the board “is not expected to deliver judgement as to whether the allegations that have been put forward are correct or not” as this was up to the police to investigate and for the courts to deliver judgement upon.
Referring to the stories revealed by this newspaper, the minister said the misconduct in question relates to at least two issues: “allegations of the receipt of bribes by these officers in return for the passing of driving tests” and the specific case exposed last Sunday of Nikolai Magrin, who was involved in a traffic accident on 29 April while he was driving in a drunken state.
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