Police to charge 230 on Transport Malta licensing fraud

The Economic Crimes Unit has prepared the charges against 230 persons who allegedly were issued with licenses for driving categories without ever having been sat for tests.

Three Transport Malta employees are expected to be charged with organizing the alleged scam. The matter was discovered following a detailed audit compiled by an audit firm that was engaged to investigate irregularities within the licensing division of TM.

The audit firm concluded that the licenses were issued without any payments made to TM, while a number of fiscal receipts were allegedly cancelled.

Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit has been appointed to hear the cases, whereby the TM employees are to be charged with complicity in falsification, corruption, and false oaths. According to police sources, during the investigations it transpired in one particular case, the sum of €233 was paid for the issuance of a license.