Gozo minister appoints cousin on Gozo Channel board
Gozo minister Anton Refalo appoints his cousin as secretary of Gozo Channel board.
Renata Formosa, the Gozo minister Anton Refalo's cousin has been appointed as secretary on the Gozxo Channel board.
Speaking to MaltaToday, the minister confirmed that Formosa, a lawyer by profession, will be the secretary of the Gozo Channel board which is led by former Labour financial controller and Xaghra mayor Joe Cordina.
Cordina is the director of fiduciary services company Intershore, which served as a director of oil trader George Farrugia's company Aikon Ltd, before resigning from its directorship when Farrugia's family filed court proceedings against him over embezzlement of oil profits from family business Powerplan.
Cordina had withdrawn his candidature on the thirteenth (Gozo) district during the last elections.
Gozo Channel now falls within the remit of the Gozo ministry. It previously was the responsibility of either the finance or the transport ministry.
Refalo has also come underfire from some quarters for employing his wife, Michelina, in the ministry's customer care department.