Updated | Mizzi terminates €60,000 job at Enemalta for dismissed police officer

A police inspector discharged from the police force on medical grounds was granted a new job within Enemalta’s audit division with a salary of around €60,000 a mere four days after his dismissal, shadow justice minister Jason Azzopardi claimed.

The former police inspector is Daniel Zammit, the son of former acting police commissioner Ray Zammit.

But energy minister Konrad Mizzi told MaltaToday that he had now ordered Enemalta to terminate the police officer’s employment.

Speaking in Parliament, Azzopardi asked Home Affairs Carmelo Abela for details about this case, arguing that the inspector’s medical condition wasn’t a serious one.

Abela responded that the coordinator of the police force’s medical board had issued a sworn statement that normal boarding-out procedures were followed. He insisted that neither he nor the coordinator knew the inspector on a personal level and that no favouritism was displayed towards him.

Mizzi told this newspaper that he was “completely unaware” that the police officer had been medically boarded out and then employed as a consultant. “I instructed the shareholder to terminate the employment at once.”

In a statement, the Nationalist Party said that Mizzi only terminated the worker as a "reaction to the public outcry against the government which has failed miserably in its pledge for meritocracy". 

"After giving his wife €13,000 a month, Konrad Mizzi did not hesitate to give €5,000 a month to a former Police inspector who was boarded out from the Police Force due to health reasons," the PN said. "Like all other shady deals, this was kept under wraps by this government, until details of this engagement were revealed in Parliament tonight."