Nationalist MP Graham Bencini has submitted a complaint to the Broadcasting Authority after the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) failed to report on Malta’s standing in the Corruption Perceptions Index.
In his complaint, Bencini said that it was unbelievable that PBC made to reference to this report, “which is of the utmost national importance and thus in the public interest”.
Malta dropped three points in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, mainly due to a lack of convictions in cases of high-level corruption.
The downward trend was confirmed after recommendations from the public inquiry into the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia were yet to be implemented in legislation, which continued concerns for media freedom and political interference in public media and for the fight against organised crime.
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