Former ‘Gakketta blu’ enforcer appointed to board without public call
Gejtu Cuschieri, also known as ‘Gejtu l-Ħajta’, former police officer and a founder of the 1980s ‘Gakketta blu’ group of PN enforcers, was appointed to the board of directors of Malta Air Traffic Services Ltd.
Cuschieri is well-known for this past activism in the Nationalist Party in the 1980s and 1990s. For years he was the head of security within the PN headquarters and, along with minister Austin Gatt and others, where he founded a section within the party known as ‘tal-Gakketta blu’.
Sister newspaper Illum reports that sources are baffled how government keeps filling strategic posts within inside men, when Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi himself had said in the latest election was he would be insisting on “greater transparency.”
In the electoral manifesto, the PN vowed that “appointments to government boards would be done only following a public call for applications.”