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WEDNESDAY • 21 DECEMBER 2022 • ISSUE 824 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
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Car mileage scam: police
refuse to clear car imports
KARL AZZOPARDI
AUTHORITIES have been forced to in-
troduce an indemnity form after police
at the Laboratory Wharf in the Grand
Harbour refused to clear imported cars.
This newspaper understands they did
not want to be held liable in light of on-
going investigations on tampered mile-
age gauges.
Last June MaltaToday revealed how
hundreds of consumers have been sold
second-hand Japanese cars with tam-
pered mileage gauges, in a racket in-
volving at least two car dealerships.
Cars bought from Japanese bidding
markets on the cheap because of their
high mileage, would then be sold in
Malta with the dashboard gauge show-
ing low mileage.
An exercise carried out by Malta-
Today on a sample of 18 car models
flagged by multiple industry sources,
shows discrepancies ranging between
30,000km and 130,000km between the
original mileage and the one registered
in Malta.
Authorities introduce indemnity form after police refuse to clear
imported cars • Large backlog of vehicles awaiting clearance
Church poll:
80% agree with
abortion when
woman's life is
in danger
MATTHEW VELLA
A Church-commissioned survey has re-
vealed that 80% of respondents to a Misco
poll are in agreement with the termination
of a pregnancy "in circumstances where a
woman's life is in danger."
The survey among 800 respondents was
publicised by the Maltese archdiocese,
and published a day after the Maltese
parliament voted in a historic first to
tweak Malta's abortion ban by sending
the Bill to committee stage.
21% of respondents to the survey al-
so said they agreed with abortion as "a
means of limiting the size of a family, ir-
respective of whether a mother's health
or life is at risk.
