Government ministers who think nothing of faking documents to save themselves

First we had Economy Minister Chris Cardona (now a contender for the Labour Party deputy leadership) and the post-factum lease agreement he hastily cobbled together when the Opposition demanded proof that he was paying his drinking-buddy, Silvan Fenech of the Tumas Group, for the use of his Portomaso flat.

Then we had Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi conspiring with the Prime Minister to lie to the public about a ‘draft declaration of assets’ which the former claimed to have written and which the latter claimed to have seen, but which clearly did not exist – because if it did, it would have been in their interest to publish it to back up their claim. But they didn’t.

And then we had the Energy Minister’s actual declaration of assets to parliament, backdated to January, and listing his fishy New Zealand and Panama operations. This when my uploading of two photographs on this website, one of New Zealand lamb and the other of a Panama hat, on 22 February, threw him into a blind panic and sent him scurrying to Malta Today to break his own bad news about the New Zealand trust, while failing to name it or to mention the even more important fact that it was set up to hold shares in a Panama company.

Then we had those two very mysterious reference letters issued by a branch of HSBC Bank more than a year after it ceased to exist. (Asked what he would have done if faced with such questionable documents, the man in charge of another bank responded, “It is not a bank’s business to bring down the government of a sovereign state” – which is telling).

And now, what else?