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3 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 23 DECEMBER 2020 NEWS Lotto winner takes home €1.1 million for Christmas A lucky Qauterno Plus player became a millionaire overnight after matching five out of eight numbers drawn on Saturday. The woman stopped at the Kalkara Maltco booth on Friday to purchase a Grand Lottery ticket but then decided to also get a Quaterno+ ticket, playing the same five numbers she had played the previous three weeks. She learned she had won the jackpot on Saturday evening, during the live draw on television. The woman's partner was the one who presented the winning ticket at the Malt- co Lotteries offices on Monday and he took home a cheque for €1,160,000. He said that he had been frightened and concerned when his partner started screaming while watching the televised draw on Saturday. He said she could not believe her five numbers had been drawn but then started screaming "We are now millionaires!". Quaterno Plus is a widely popular week- ly draw-based lottery game offering at- tractive prizes including a first category progressive jackpot starting at €250,000. The next draw is on Saturday 26 Decem- ber. Tickets can be purchased at Maltco agents or online at www.maltco.com CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 "He didn't even have the political strength to order her to suspend herself while investigations are being carried out," Reports on Sunday revealed Cutajar's business dealings with the alleged mas- termind behind the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder Yorgen Fenech. Cutajar allegedly pocketed €50,000 in cash pay- ment, for helping to broker a property transaction. Grech went on to say that it is useless burdening those in the financial and commercial sector with new legislation, just to pass the Moneyval test, for poli- ticians to then do as they wish, without oversight. "The prime minister has the obli- gation to not allow such behaviour," Grech said. He said that for each day that passes with Rosianne Cutajar still at her post, the Abela would be giving her his sup- port and protection following the al- leged dealings. "He knows he has to make the right decisions for the sake of the party," he said. On Monday, the Nationalist Party said the Prime Minister should remove Cutajar from her role as parliamentary secretariat and send a clear message that her actions are not acceptable in a democratic country. "With his inaction, the PM is con- firming his trust in Cutajar, and sees no wrong in her actions," a statement read. Abela has since said he will wait for the outcome of an investigation by George Hyzler, Commissioner for Standards in Public Life, before making any deci- sions. "I am informed that the commissioner shall be investigating and so when the commissioner arrives at his conclusion I will be in a better position to take de- cisions… If she received the money - something, from what I read yesterday, she is denying - then that would be one matter. This will be determined by the commissioner for standards. We re- spect the decisions of institutions," Ab- ela said on Monday. Cutajar has not denied being involved in the sale of the property Grech accuses Abela of protecting Cutajar 'for the sake of the party'