Malta Today has woken up at last to news reported on this website last week

It’s about Sandro Demarco’s appointment to a post that was created especially for him (a second deputy governor of the Central Bank) when the government discovered that it could not demand the resignations of the incumbent deputy governor and of the governor himself because these positions are accountable/answerable to the European Central Bank and not to the government of Malta.

Demarco had worked on a Labour Party report about water and electricity tariffs without informing the Central Bank (where he works) and was brought before the bank’s disciplinary board, which found that he should have exercised more caution and prudence before accepting to review the Labour Party’s report (“a report on a matter which could lead to public controversy”) and that he should have notified the bank of his involvement and sought prior approval.

Demarco was ordered to assure the bank, within two weeks of his being instructed to do so, of his continued loyalty, dedication and commitment, to declare that he understood the Central Bank’s position on the matter, and to pledge that he would not do the same again. He did not do so.