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WEDNESDAY • 24 AUGUST 2022 • ISSUE 807 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
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University 2022
budget reduced
by €1.1 million
in government
spending review
Finance Minister
says Air Malta
restructuring
plan proceeding
as planned
10 arrested, drugs and
cash seized during police
raids in Valletta and Marsa
LUKE VELLA
TEN people were arrested for drug traf-
ficking after police raided properties in
Valletta and Marsa on Tuesday.
Police said they had been observing
the movement of a 30-year-old Maltese
woman and 31-year-old foreign man,
who were allegedly using two houses at
Old Hospital Street in Valletta for drug
preparation and trafficking.
The two main suspects were arrested at
around 6:30am at Archbishop Street and
subsequently the police raided the two
properties.
The operation was led by the Drug
Squad, who were assisted by the Special
Intervention Unit, the Rapid Interven-
tion Unit along with district and com-
munity police.
Six foreign men and another Maltese
woman were also arrested during the
raid.
Police said cocaine, cash, jewellery and
items related to drug trafficking, were
confiscated from the Valletta properties.
In a second related operation in Mar-
sa, police raided a horse stable at Triq
it-Tiġrija, where a 50-year-old Maltese
man from Żejtun was arrested.
A search at the stable uncovered can-
nabis, cocaine and synthetic drugs, ready
for trafficking.
Magistrate Gabriella Vella is leading an
inquiry.
NICOLE MEILAK
THE Air Malta restructuring process is
going ahead as planned, with the airline set
to shed over 500 employees over the com-
ing weeks and months, Finance Minister
Clyde Caruana has insisted.
