Newly elected Nationalist MEP Therese Comodini Cachia yesterday denied she was working for a firm of lawyers authorised to serve as an agent of the government’s Individual Investor Programme, as claimed by a Sunday newspaper.

“I carry my profession as self-employed and I just rent an office and use the same reception desk,” the MEP said.

“I neither share clients, nor profits or liabilities as we have a separation of estates,” Dr Comodini Cachia told this newspaper when questioned about the report in Illum.

The story questioned her role in view of the fact that she was representing another legal firm that had legally challenged the government’s decision to choose Henley and Partners as the concessionaires of the IIP.

The Nationalist Party had opposed the IIP, otherwise known as the citizenship scheme, due to the fact that it lacked a residency requirement.

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