Issue link: https://maltatoday.uberflip.com/i/1285850
TRUTH IS OF NO COLOUR WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT/COVID19 SUNDAY • 6 SEPTEMBER 2020 • ISSUE 1088 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY MARIA BUCKLE Dropping it all for the stage Q&A MT3 PAUL COCKS LAWYER Bernard Grech has twice been called up by the Inland Revenue Department to settle years of unpaid in- come tax and even VAT, but the contender for the post of Nationalist Party leader has refused to declare when he formally settled his tax problems. Court records show Grech, 47, was asked in 2006 to settle a hefty bill for unpaid taxes between 1990 and 1996, and then again in 2012 for the years 1999-2011. Even more recent- ly, he was asked to settle VAT assessments for 2014 to 2019. But Grech has not confirmed with MaltaToday why he had not paid tax for so many years on end, nor has he shared the date on which he reached a settlement to pay his tax bill in full. Bernard has a tax problem... PAGE 4 Why Malta lags behind on trafficking PAGE 2 Off the hook: man accused of forced labour acquitted PAGE 3 Violence, crime and dependence: normalisation is risk PGS 14-15 MT2 LARA DIMITRIJEVIC maltatoday maltatoday | SUNDAY • 6 SEPTEMBER 2020 This Week Author Karl Schembri The Q&A Natasa Pantovic CLASSIFIEDS & COMMERCIALS ARTS • TV • WHAT'S ON €1.95 SAVIOUR BALZAN & MATTHEW VELLA THE business partner of the Tumas mag- nate Yorgen Fenech, had claimed with middleman Melvin Theuma that police were planning to confiscate Fenech's mobile phone during a stopover in Lon- don Gatwick airport. According to conversations recorded by Theuma on his mobile phone just days before a planned police raid on his home – sparked by an FIAU investiga- tion into his illegal lotteries – Johann Cremona was keeping the man Fenech tasked with contracting Daphne Caru- ana Galizia's killers, informed of devel- opments in police investi- gations. EXCLUSIVE PAGE 6 mt survey KILLER'S RETURN A conversation with author Karl Schembri MT3 Regatta without fans The Harbour gets emptied by COVID-19 PAGE 16 'Desperate' police planned to take Yorgen Fenech's phone in Gatwick airport MALTATODAY SURVEY Grech could halve Abela's trust lead, as Labour polls its worst ever in 2020 PAGES 14-15 Theuma was told Castille would pin assassination on smuggling suspect Darren Debono 'Next of kin'•Fenech's 2019 Houston cocaine arrest