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The CEO of the Malta Digital Innovation Authority lays out vision for Malta as the Blockchain Island WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION €1.00 Newspaper post EDITORIAL • PAGE 9 WEDNESDAY • 19 SEPTEMBER 2018 • ISSUE 604 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY 'I am stronger': Valletta FC's Jonathan Caruana gives a personal account of the fight to clear his name after doping suspension YANNICK PACE THE Nationalist Party's representative on the PA Board that will tomorrow be deciding on a permit for the massive development on the site of the former ITS campus, will be voting against the project, Adrian Delia said yesterday. Speaking during a question and an- swer session with MaltaToday online editor, Kurt Sansone, on the granaries in Floriana last night, Delia said that "from the information he has" there were aspects of the project that did not conform with the law and therefore a permit should not be granted. "From the information I have, primar- ily from Marthese Portelli – our rep- resentative on the board – unless the plans change drastically overnight and conform to the rules, I believe, I imag- ine, I'm almost sure she will vote against the project," Delia said. 11 3 20 PN to vote against ITS-site project MATTHEW AGIUS MALTESE Customs have uncovered what has been termed by a govern- ment statement as the largest ever drug find in Malta. According to information received by MaltaToday, over 10 tonnes of can- nabis resin was seized while in transit at the Malta Freeport on a container ship that had left Syria and was sail- ing to Libya. The Maltese government said in a statement that the container ship had been followed for days before its ar- rival in Malta and the intervention of Customs officers. Customs officers were inspecting four containers at the Malta Freeport. Three of the containers were declared to be carrying pails of crockery deter- gent, while the other container was declared to carry blow-torches. The containers, which were transit- ing through Malta on their way from Syria to Libya, were flagged as 'poten- tial high-risk containers' following risk analysis performed by the Malta Customs Container Monitoring Unit. All four containers were scanned by the ZBV backscatter scanner, and subsequently by the Nuctech X-ray scanner. In both occasions, all pails of detergent produced in- consistency in the image. People's quality of life being threatened to protect interest of powerful few, Graffitti claims PAGE 2 PAGE 3 Largest ever drug haul valued at €28.5 million CITY CENTRE PROJECT a one-stop shop for all your investments BOV INVESTMENTS Issued by Bank of Valletta p.l.c., 58, Triq San Żakkarija, Il-Belt Valletta VLT 1130 More information is available from www.bov.com or contact 2131 2020. The value of investments may go down as well as up and may be affected by changes in currency exchange rates. Bank of Valletta p.l.c. is a public limited liability company regulated by the MFSA and is licensed to carry out investment services in terms of the Investment Services Act (Cap. 370 of the Laws of Malta). COM 1980 Customs' drug bust: 10 tonnes of cannabis resin worth €28.5m inside container ship OPINION SPORT