Believe it or not, even I hesitate to write about certain topics out of fear of being snapped out of context and have my words twisted. This blog is often laced with references to my own many faults and weaknesses, my own mistakes and misjudgements. But I would always want to avoid discussing my parenting [...]
A transcript of a series of questions asked by Magistrate Aaron Bugeja as part of the Egrant inquiry in an unpublished portion of the inquiry report seen by this website, shows the Magistrate’s interpretation of his terms of reference excluded the determination of who owns Egrant. “Se nagħmililek ċara. It-terms of reference tiegħi mhumiex li [...]
If you are the type to walk around town fearing you might be blown up, you no longer walk around town. Fear of imminent death is in itself a form of execution. It is a classic Mafia tool. Speak to any journalist who has worked in Italy and they will tell you that the method [...]
This is a guest post by veteran auditor Godfrey Leone Ganado who compares his findings into data on Keith Schembri's investments with MFSP, leaked FIAU investigations and the published conclusions of the Egrant inquiry. When you're done you can sit down to wonder why the police called in Pierre Portelli and Jonathan Ferries for questioning [...]
The ‘if you can’t beat them join them’ philosophy articulated rather naively but for that no less sincerely by Justin Schembri really aspire for one thing: a collective regression to the primordial sub-intellect of political fandom. No political party has anything to envy Labour unless of course, other political parties see their scope for existence [...]
(Photo: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images) The family of Daphne Caruana Galizia has today called on prime minister Joseph Muscat to establish a public inquiry into whether her assassination in October 2017 could have been avoided. This request is supported by a legal opinion prepared by European Human Rights law experts Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC and [...]
Few people will ever transact a quarter of a billion euro. At that level numbers no longer make sense to most people. It’s not being simple or mathematically challenged. It’s just that those values have no experiential context for most people’s reality. It’s like an astronomer trying to explain to me how far is [...]
Justin Schembri is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Even in a drawer of spoons. The image of his article in-Nazzjon (see below) is making the rounds and your eyes inevitably fall on the highlighted bit where he says “Maybe the Nationalist Party should get closer to the Labour Party and imitate it in [...]
This Egrant thing is a sideshow. A question was asked fifteen months ago the answer to which could not but have been no. And it has been answered. Joseph Muscat did not order inquiries on whether Keith Schembri or Konrad Mizzi broke laws. He also knows the answer to that question and the prime minister [...]
Lawyer Vincent Galea wrote to me again today with the following. My comments are beneath. "I refer to the comments uploaded on your blog above-referred to. In particular, but not only, I refer to the comments made by Mr. Michael A. Vella where he refers to the Leader of the Nationalist Party Dr Adrian Delia, [...]
A statement released earlier by #occupyjustice: Despite #occupyjustice’s repeated pleas, the Malta Police did not act on the FIAU reports that exposed Konrad Mizzi’s and Keith Schembri’s money laundering crimes. However, the Malta Police seem to be very keen to chase after people, like the former Inspector Jonathan Ferris, who have fought for the truth [...]
The European Commission has finally expressed its concern about passport sales programs. Commissioner Vera Jourova gave a striking quote yesterday: “We don’t want any trojan horses in the EU”. When something is made to look like something else, it inevitably raises suspicion. Malta’s passport scheme is made to look like an attraction for investment to [...]
If the balance is tipped; if the scales are fixed to favour a side; if the blindfold on justice is removed and the sword wielded in the interests of someone against the other, justice becomes injustice and law becomes delinquency. In and of itself there is nothing outside the limits of the law for the [...]
When an idea is packaged as dogma and a group of powerful people go about ramming it down people’s throat insisting no questions are asked, someone somewhere is bound to ask questions. Threats of or material accusations of heresy make it even more inevitable that at least some start to wonder if something is [...]
Well not really. It’s a tale on how TVM, the national broadcaster covered statements by Standard & Poor’s and Fitch. First a disclaimer. Joseph Muscat has legitimised the logical fallacy of tu quoque. Being told in retort that I too covered the two statements differently does not hold water. I am not a news service. [...]
This Facebook post by Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando is remarkable. Firstly, of course, it relies on the idea that every time people go to bed, they wake up the next morning like goldfish, with no memory. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando accused David Casa of treachery and of knowingly speaking untruths to harm those around him. Perhaps, for [...]
The Malta Today results corroborated the earlier Lovin Malta survey that used a different methodology and got very near results on the voting intentions front showing a gap between the PL and PN of something between 94,000 and 100,000 votes: meaning that for any person intending to vote PN, two would be voting Labour. That [...]
In a short radio interview yesterday morning Adrian Delia continued with his self-immolation tour. He said the PN “lost its credibility and is not managing to show it renewed itself”. It has and it isn’t but not for the reasons being spun by the leadership of the party. There’s an attempt to give the hallucinating [...]
There is a significant logical gap in something Adrian Delia told The Sunday Times yesterday. “There is nothing in the 1,500 pages of the Egrant inquiry report, which has not been published so far in its entirety, which may alter its crystal-clear conclusions.” It’s never difficult to understand whose side Adrian Delia is on. To [...]
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Fraud and forgery were a mainstay of Mossack Fonseca. It was their USP. Was this evaluated in the inquiry? ... Even if, for argument’s sake, the outcome of insufficient evidence to prosecute may be the right one, the Attorney General should consider exercising his discretion at law [...]