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15 NEWS maltatoday | SUNDAY • 28 APRIL 2024 Plazma Ltd is seeking to engage a Junior Concept Designer to create images of characters and environments for game development. You will develop the initial visual concepts (characters, props, vehicles, environments) from a script or creative brief. Key Responsibilities: • create quick and detailed drawings and paintings of environments, characters, buildings, vehicles and props (including creation of thumbnails and wireframes); • use traditional and technological approaches to create designs in 2D and 3D through drawing and painting; • efficiently interpret briefs; • explain and pitch your ideas clearly to the design team; • respond positively to the feedback; • adapt and refine your work based on the response; • maintain good communication with the design team; • research topics and information for points of reference and ideas to use in your designs; • create specification sheets, accurately noting dimensions and details for others to follow; • meet strict deadlines. Qualifications and Skills: • A foundation degree in a relevant field such as Design, Fine Art, Illustration or equivalent. Experience in a creative role is considered an asset; • Proficiency in the Russian language is essential. Moderate level of the English language will be beneficial. • Impeccable understanding and ability in artistic fundamentals - such as perspective, composition, color and light theory, form, shape and texture; • Strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills are critical; • Excellent time management skills, to sketch and adapt images quickly within tight deadlines; • Research skills and an exceptional imagination to create images of characters and places that don't yet exist; • Resilience to receive constant feedback and adapt your work based on the client and manager's views; • The ability to work well in a team as part of wider design process, as well as being able to work independently and self-motivate to keep on top of deadlines; • Excellent attention to detail. Company details: PLAZMA LIMITED AIREDESK BUSINESS HUB, 17, TRIQ IL-MODD, IBRAGG SWIEQI Contact person: Oksana Solopko Contact Phone: +356 9970 2477 out. But its star is Green politician José Bové a one-year suspended prison sentence by a Belgian court that ruled he taped witness- es surreptitiously in Dalligate probe. But for Bové, whose book on the lobbies that power Eu- ropean policy is the basis for Antoine Raimbault's film ad- aptation, it is still a matter of principle: his intimate convic- tion is that Dalli did not com- mit 'an inside trade'. "Dalli is someone I fought on, on the is- sue of GMOs and other issues we disagreed upon. But I know him. I talked to him. I think I know who he is," he tells the film's producers in the film's press kit. "So when he gets kicked out of the Commission in half an hour, I think that there's something wrong, something that's not normal," Bové says about what propelled his per- sonal campaign to unlock the mystery of the Swedish Match complaint to OLAF. But the other crucial reason was that two employees of Swedish Match, speaking to Bové during a recorded conver- sation, admitted that they had lied on the allegations at the re- quest of OLAF. "We find our- selves in something that was built to legitimise the ousting of Dalli," Bové says, recounting the staggering confession. Together with his ally and fel- low MEP Bart Staes, Bové had back in 2013 accused Barroso of being politically at fault in forcing out Dalli before verify- ing whether OLAF's investiga- tion – instigated by the smoke- less tobacco lobby and allies of Philip Morris International – had been carried out legally or not. Bové's suspicions were presci- ent, given the shortcomings in the OLAF investigation, which included ambushing witness- es or suspects with no legal defence, treating suspects like Kimberley to dinner and wine after a round of questioning, and even using illegal taping of phone conversations. Barroso was indeed only too happy to see Dalli's back – he had not yet read the OLAF re- port when he was handed its summary, before telling Dalli to exit the Commission build- ing. Neither had the OLAF re- port yet been evaluated by its supervisory committee. "The fact that Barroso decid- ed to send the OLAF report to the Maltese authorities before the supervisory committee could analyse it was so that it could not be discussed," Bové had told the Maltese press in 2013. "The honour of Malta is at stake. Can you imagine had a French or German com- missioner been 'taken out'? It would have been a mess. As MEPs, we cannot accept that Europe works in this way, and that's why we are arguing for transparency. This story has to come to an end." Bové had insisted that Dalli's revision of the Tobacco Prod- ucts Directive, which was in- tent on keeping the EU retail ban on snus, had also been re- peatedly postponed for consul- tation by EC secretary-general Catherine Day. "The fact that Mr Dalli was kicked out so quickly, with- out any legal basis, shows the tobacco companies wanted to win more time by postponing the Tobacco Products Direc- tive... it was a very strong direc- tive against the tobacco com- panies… Dalli was refusing to open the market for snus, so it makes no sense that he wanted to accept a bribe for the oppo- site reason. The fact that Swed- ish Match's allegations were not verified by OLAF is incred- ible. OLAF accepted their ver- sion of events as fact." John Dalli, who has occupied no political post since his oust- er from Brussels in October 2012, has always protested his innocence, claiming he was unaware of Silvio Zammit's ac- tions when Kimberley curried favour with him in the hope that he could get Dalli to ac- cept cash to lift the snus ban. After a Belgian judge deliv- ered his ruling on former OLAF chief Kessler in 2023, Dalli de- scribed it as partial vindica- tion. "It took 11 years to finally breach the European Commis- sion's secrecy, although on just one part of the investigation... the truth will prevail." In its ruling, the Belgian court said it was "concerned" by Kes- sler's attitude, as he "claimed to be unaware of the existence of legislation regulating the recording of phone conversa- tions," even though these re- strictions derive from the Eu- ropean Convention on Human Rights that he could not ignore given his role as chief of OLAF. The case against Dalli in the Maltese courts, which include trading in influence and at- tempted bribery, is ongoing. He denies the charges.