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Newspaper post PHOTO CHRIS MANGION SUNDAY • 12 JUNE 2016 • ISSUE 866� • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY SUNDAY • SUNDAY • 12 JUNE 2016 • ISSUE 866� 12 JUNE 2016 • ISSUE 866� • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday 'Adverts like Uno's Game On are the reason girls dress like village whores' JOSANNE CASSAR PAGE 6 Armed Forces deny claims of ill- treatment of refugees in Greece PAGE 3 JURGEN BALZAN THE Armed Forces of Malta and Frontex have re- futed reports that Maltese officials who are currently deployed in Greece denied aid to refugees, including a child, and left them float- ing in the sea off Greece for nearly two hours. Aid workers and volun- teers have claimed that AFM officers "were nota- bly hostile and aggressive towards the refugees" who were rescued on Monday, 30 May. According to eyewitness accounts AFM members and Greek officers prevent- ed aid workers from help- ing 50 people who landed on the northern shore of the Greek island of Lesbos. But in comments to Mal- taToday, an AFM spokes- person said "there were no requests for any kind of as- sistance and all migrants were in good health condi- tion therefore volunteers were asked to keep some distance, not to add confu- sion to the situation, hence ensuring a smooth and safe transfer of all migrants/ asylum seekers." Moreover, both Frontex and the AFM said that all decisions about when res- cue vessels come to shore are taken by the Greek au- thorities and are commu- nicated through the Hel- lenic Coast Guard officer aboard. "The crew of the Mal- tese vessel followed the instructions presented by the Greek liaison officer," Frontex said. PANAMA PAPERS MEP: 'Committee should summon minister after learning how financial services in Malta hide UBOs' 9 YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT 'Mizzi should prepare for an invitation' MATTHEW VELLA ONE of the MEPs who will sit on the new Panama Papers committee in the European Parliament said the committee is gearing up for an inquiry into the creation of letterbox com- panies in Malta and how they are used by European business- es to minimise tax payments back home. Sven Giegold, a German MEP for the Green Party, is adamant that the 65-member committee carry out a serious inquiry into the way beneficial owners are allowed to hide their identities, before summoning people like minister Konrad Mizzi – the only EU minister to have set up a Panama offshore company through Mossack Fonseca to hide his beneficial ownership while in office – to answer to the inquiry. TOWERS OF GOLD The real estate market is braced to reap millions from the search for the global rich to make St George's Bay their new playground treatment of refugees in Greece 12 13 Actress Pia Zammit and singer Lisa Micallef Grimaud know what the big deal is all about 'This increasingly sexualized world is the one your daughters have to deal with' 23 INTERVIEW MARCO CREMONA 'The PN will see us a threat' says the Democratic Party's secretary-general 14 15 €1.40 PAGE 3 DELEGATES CHOOSE BULLISH MINISTER CHRIS CARDONA IS ELECTED THE PL'S NEW DEPUTY LEADER FOR PARTY AFFAIRS Owen Bonnici (left) congratulates Chris Cardona on winning Labour's deputy leadership for party affairs, an election prompted by the resignation of Konrad Mizzi after the Panama Papers broke