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Labour Leader Alfred Sant has met privately Charles Polidano known as ic-Caqnu, in the wake of a fierce campaign by the MLP against the construction giant for illegally dumping rubble at sea.
Known only among to a few people, the meeting over a drink was described by insiders as “cordial, interesting but going nowhere”.
When contacted about the nature of his meeting with Polidano, Sant replied abruptly: “Ask him.”
Asked whether he felt it was appropriate to meet Polidano after having attacked him publicly for the environmental disaster, he repeated: “Ask him.”
Polidano has been pictured as the nemesis of the Labour party, which labelled him as some kind of close PN collaborator.
Polidano said he had nothing to say about the meeting when contacted.
His company, Polidano Brothers, today represents the largest construction business in Malta estimated to be worth millions of liri and he now has interests in various countries including Belgium and Russia.
Polidano and his businesses have been the centre of much controversy. He has shunned the press, having for ages managed to keep his picture out of newspapers. In August it was revealed that his company had dumped building waste material illegally at sea. The Labour media picked up the story and followed it persistently for weeks on end as it foment an image of a construction giant that was unstoppable in the eyes of the law.
This led Polidano to declare publicly that a great number of his employees who were Labourites intended to destroy their voting document in the next general election. Labour hit back saying that his outburst was full of “incitement and intimidation”.
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