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Newspaper post YOUR FIRST READ AND CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT SUNDAY • 28 OCTOBER 2018 • ISSUE 990 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Casa's former aide says EP salaries were inflated SUNDAY • 28 OCTOBER 2018 • ISSUE 990 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday SUNDAY • 28 OCTOBER 2018 • ISSUE 990 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY today today • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY today • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY DID YOU SET THE CLOCK ONE HOUR BACK? SAVIOUR BALZAN A former longstanding aide to National- ist MEP David Casa was paid in excess of €100,000 annually, but never pock- eted the full amount of a deliberately inf lated salary. The reason: the money was retained by the paying agent work- ing for Casa's office to make full 'use' of the European Parliament's salary budget allowance… even if the money did not go strictly for salaries. Taxation records seen by MaltaToday show that Casa paid his former aide a total of €101,513 in 2009, a record salary that would have meant the aide was paid more than even MEPs themselves that same year – when salaries were tagged at €92,000 under new statute rules. But while the paying agent responsi- ble for disbursing the EP's salary budget for Casa submitted a taxable income for €101,513 in 2009, the aide claims he was never actually paid that full amount. Instead, the aide declared that his actu- al salary in 2009 was overstated by some €35,000 to €40,000, suggesting that the money was retained by the paying agent handling Casa's staff salaries. In 2010, the aide was again paid a high- er salary than the one actually deposited in his bank account – just over €58,000 – but this was actually overstated by €10,000, he claims. At this point the aide had resettled in Malta and was paid a lower salary. The aide's declarations come in the wake of a letter he has sent to the EU's anti-fraud agency OLAF requesting that he be invited to submit information on the way Casa's office has managed the finances it received from the European Parliament. Part of this information is expected to centre on the way staff salaries could have been inf lated so as to claim a larg- er portion of the annual €270,000 staff budget that the EP paid to the MEPs' paying agents. Goodbye Summer! Whistleblower who wrote to OLAF requesting he furnish information on fi nancial irregularities says tax-declared salaries were infl ated so that portion of EP budget is retained by MEP's offi ce • In 2009, he was paid €101,000 – more than an MEP €1.95 DID YOU SET THE CLOCK ONE HOUR PAGE 3 Casa in the House: his former aide says he was once paid €101,000 - more than any MEP - but the cash never came to his pockets 2 Cryptic Street's Leona Farrugia takes the Q&A SUNDAY • malta SUNDAY • Howard Debono X Factor's tough judge or just a nice guy? PG 16-17 4 X FACTOR The costly price of delusion

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