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Newspaper post YOUR FIRST READ AND CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT FREE! VIDA Magazine WITH MALTATODAY SUNDAY • 4 NOVEMBER 2018 • ISSUE 991 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Delia's allies mull 'dignified exit' for troubled PN leader SUNDAY • 4 NOVEMBER 2018 • ISSUE 991 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday SUNDAY • 4 NOVEMBER 2018 • ISSUE 991 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY today today • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY today • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY SAVIOUR BALZAN THERE is trouble at the heart of the Nationalist Party's em- battled leadership. In a tumultuous week that saw Opposition leader Adrian Delia confirming reports that his wife Nickie Vella de Fre- meaux had requested a legal separation, his close aides Clyde Puli, Pierre Portelli and Hermann Schiavone have been engaging in discussions on the future of Delia and the prospect of his resignation. With Delia's marital break- down now taking centre- stage, Nationalist MP Her- mann Schiavone has sent out messages to Vella de Fre- meaux describing the less than serene state of the PN leader, and that Delia might soon require the help of his closest MPs to make a painless exit from the party helm. Preliminary investigation by OLAF into Maltese MEPs' expenses Adrian Delia's closest allies like Hermann Schiavone (background, left) have expressed concern on the state of the Opposition leader due to his marital problems 2 Q&A The Travellers' Chris Gatt PG 2 SUNDAY • malta SUNDAY • 2 Q&A 2 The Travellers' 2 Chris Gatt 2 €1.95 Naomi Klein speaks at the Malta Book Festival MaltaToday 2 PG 14 MALTATODAY November 2018 | Issue 107 www.vida.com.mt INTERVIEW WITH GAIA CAUCHI NICOSIA UNWRAPPED Over-populated? We broke down the data on Malta's most diverse towns PAGES 14-15 PAGE 3 MEPs' probe MATTHEW VELLA THE European Union's anti- fraud agency OLAF is carry- ing out a preliminary inquiry into expenses claims that could touch upon all of Malta's MEPs, MaltaToday has learnt. The investigation was launched to also look into re- ports by this newspaper over claims of inflated staff salaries, designed to claim as much as possible the monies from the European Parliament's budget for MEPs' assistants; as well as declarations of a €4,000 monthly allowance known as the general expenses allowance being made up by fictitious amounts and with no backing fiscal documentation. News of the inquiry prompted a former aide to Nationalist MEP David Casa to write to OLAF director-general Ville Itälä, requesting he give infor- mation on how staff salaries were inflated so as to retain the money for other purposes. In the letter, the aide has fur- nished OLAF with additional and specific information indi- cating precisely all the salaries paid since being employed by the side of Casa. PAGE 5 data on Malta's

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