MEPs were asked today to vote on whether Joseph Muscat should fuck off pronto or enjoy his last Christmas in Castille. Almost all of them said he should fuck off pronto. The list is so long it's boring. So let's look at the list of the people who said they're fine with Joseph Muscat staying [...]

Posted by Corinne Vella under the 6th post this morning on the publication of the Egrant inquiry. Malta's failure to investigate the Panama Papers - as other countries with poorer democratic credentials than ours have done - is directly linked to Daphne's assassination. Egrant Inc. is a detail in a much wider web of intrigue, [...]

581 MEPs voted in favour of a resolution urging the European Commission to immediately "start a dialogue" with Malta to fix its disregard for the rule of law. They are clearly not impressed by Owen Bonnici and his broom. Only 26 MEPs voted against the motion most of them right-wing nationalists for whom no European [...]

The opposition is not a commenter on current events. It has a constitutional role of keeping the government in check and it should do more than talking. Its battlefield should principally be parliament but that institution has been reduced to a mere shadow of what it should properly be. Going to the courts in this [...]

The findings of the report published over a year ago exonerate and exculpate the Muscats leaping from the fact that the inquiry did not find evidence they owned Egrant to the conclusion that they can’t have owned it. As far as I can see, and that judgement might change after a thorough reading of the [...]

In recommending Maria Efimova is investigated for calumny and perjury after her testimony proved providential for the state to understand the fraud that Pilatus Bank was, the inquiry clearly showed it never understood what a whistle-blower is. Unlike every other witness with the exception of Jonathan Ferris that is quoted in the inquiry, Maria Efimova [...]

However limited the terms of reference of the inquiry may have been, given the allegations about Egrant and given the context in which the company was activated together with Hearnville and Tillgate, it is perfectly legitimate police work for one to seek to establish who the “bearer” of the Egrant shares was between March 2013 [...]

I know of at least one: evidence that Michelle Buttigieg, Michelle Muscat’s business partner in the fake business branded Buttardi, settled in one fell swoop a mortgage for an apartment in Manhattan, New York days after she was alleged to have received a portion of a bung paid to Michelle Muscat by the daughter of [...]

Joseph Muscat spent the last eighteen months pretending to lose his cool because Simon Busuttil forged documents to frame him for a crime. The day an extract of the report was published last year he made an act of being unable to hold back his emotions and burst into tears in a press conference. For [...]

Whatever blood, sweat and tears Aaron Bugeja put into this job and however impressive a pile of 1,501 pages may be, this inquiry report shows how woefully inadequate our institutions are in combatting money laundering and financial crime. Malta may claim it is a world class financial jurisdiction. It has adopted laws of tax havens [...]

Look, I have not yet read the whole Egrant report. 1,501 pages is rather a lot to read and it is not exactly stuff that keeps you at the edge of your seat. There’s plenty of analysis that still needs to be made. Also, Godfrey Leone Ganado will be, in good time, providing a series [...]