Watch: The Fortina deal explained

If you can't make heads or tails of the story, this is for you

Malta's National Audit Office (NAO) has published a damning report this week that exposes how taxpayers were short-changed by millions of euros in a 2019 land deal involving the Fortina Group.

But it is easy to get caught in the many figures, denials, and calls for investigations that have been flying around since.

Why are many people suddenly talking about it? What is it about the deal that prompted PN leader Alex Borg to demand a public inquiry and activists to ask the police for criminal investigations?

Why has Keith Schembri's name surfaced in this story and how is Joseph Muscat linked to it? And why should you care, after all?

It is all laid out simply in this six-minute video.

Mark Laurence Zammit explains the Fortina land case.

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