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Newspaper post YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT Heirs' harassment claims maltatoday SUNDAY • 31 JANUARY 2016 • ISSUE 847 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Who will lead the way? €1.40 13 Almost 50,000 homes have Sat-TV and Android boxes PAGE 9 PAQPAQLI INQUIRY Supercar millionaire did not test-drive 'unsuitable' racing track PGS 6-7 Fishermen claim official lampara catches being seriously over-valued PAGE 3 PN racks up €187,000 debt with Banif for Siggiewi party club THE Nationalist Party has been asked to pay over €187,000 which it owes to Banif Bank, for works carried out by the bank on the PN's party club in Siggiewi. The outstanding mat- ter has however seen some form of clemency from the bank, because legal proceedings insti- tuted by the Portuguese- owned bank are tempo- rarily frozen. While the party has for the past three years undergone radical re- structuring in a bid to cut on millions in debt it amassed over the last decade, the Banif debt stems from an unortho- dox contractual agree- ment with the bank to buy the PN property and rebuild it with an intent to resell part of the prop- erty to the PN again. The PN has refused to comment on the cir- cumstances of the bank's freeze on legal action. Fishermen say 'lampara' catches reported by the environment ministry are around 10 times higher than real market price JURGEN BALZAN FISHERMEN who spoke to MaltaTo- day have said that the market value attributed to the 2014 fish landings by lampara vessels is up to 10 times high- er than the real value of the catches. Last week, MaltaToday reported that figures in a government report published in September show that in 2014 alone Maltese lampara fishermen hauled a staggering 928 tonnes of fish, worth over €4.1 million (one tonne is 1,000 kgs). This works out at an average of €4.45 but a number of fishermen who spoke to MaltaToday on condition of anonymity said that most of the fish caught by lampara vessels in Maltese seas – mainly mackerel and sardines – is mainly sold for a paltry €0.50/kg. Based on the official landing figures reported for 2014, the market value would be nearer €464,000. Most of this fish is sold directly to companies operating the numerous fish farms and is used as fish food. 17 Piracy on the cheap ether 11 The acrimonious battle for control of Villa Parisio and Allied Newspapers Juanito Camilleri leaves behind a legacy of success at the University of Malta