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15 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 6 MARCH 2022 NEWS KANDITAT TAL-PARTIT LABURISTA GĦALL-10 U GĦAT-12 DISTRETT F L I M K I E N N I B N U F U T U R B I K W A L I T À T A ' Ħ A J J A I S B A Ħ dariovella014 +356 77 220 203 info@velladario.com VelDario said to the police. The witness insisted that she was there to handle the immi- gration aspect. Magistrate Lia warned the ser- geant that she would be declared a hostile witness if she continued to prevaricate. "It was 4 years ago and I don't remember," pleaded the policewoman from the dock. Mercieca suggested that Borg had not gone to the scene. "Whilst I was taking care of the immigrants' documents, I was hearing things behind me, but I could not look away…" replied the witness. "Whilst I was checking the passports I heard the name 'Christian Borg' being mentioned. Two of the immigrants said 'Boss, Borg, Christian Borg'" "When we took them to Depot, the employer has to go there." It might have been the case that she had seen Borg there, she told the court. Asked directly if she had seen the accused at the depot, the witness became visibly uncom- fortable and tried to sidestep the question. After a lot of hesitation, the witness finally declared that she recognised the accused as having either been "on site… or at De- pot… I don't remember if I saw him there or at Depot, but I saw that face before." Mercieca objected, saying that the witness couldn't not remem- ber and remember at the same time. "It's been 4 years. It gets confusing," said the sergeant. Jobsplus representatives outline investigation Another JobsPlus represent- ative testified, telling the court how a call had been received by Jobsplus on its hotline and an inspection was carried out at the Goldcar Car Wash in Luqa. She had spoken to the 6 work- ers, she said, recalling that one of them, an Indian national, said he had come to Malta as a student and had told her that he "worked for Christian Borg." "He was working without a per- mit with Christian Borg…The administration confirmed it," the witness continued. Asked by Inspector Buhagiar, she said she had not seen Borg at the scene, but the employees had indicated the accused as the owner. Under cross-examination, the witness confirmed that she had relied on the information given to her by people present at the scene and had not made further checks on the identity of the ac- cused. A third representative from the JobsPlus agency then took the stand, and was asked to pro- vide information the agency had about the workers at the car wash. The witness said that he had not found any record of the names of the people allegedly found during the inspection, on the JobsPlus database. He also presented the court with a copy of Christian Borg's employment history. As the sitting drew to a close, Mercieca submitted that there were "doubts" that Borg was the proper defendant. He request- ed a representative of the Malta Business Registry to testify about this in the next sitting. The case continues in May. Borg's ties to Prime Minister Robert Abela before he was elected Labour leader have raised questions about the legal services he renderded to the young millionaire