There is no way John Dalli could NOT have known Gayle Kimberley or at least who she is
John Dalli’s coyness about The Young Female Lawyer With No Name, and his repeated refusal to name her, when he has no qualms about naming everyone else and targetting even civil servants doing their job, leads me to think that Dr Kimberley or somebody close to her is up to her neck in it as well.
I hardly think that this is John Dalli being kind to and protective of a lady, give the way he’s going for civil servant Rita Schembri’s throat.
The fact of the matter is that Dr Kimberley’s mother lived for some years, and until fairly recently, with one of the owners of Marsovin. If you look at the list of John Dalli’s declaration of directorships and interests, made to the European Commission at the time of his nomination, you will see that almost all of them are Marsovin-owned companies.
Put simply, there is no way on earth he could have NOT known who Dr Gayle Kimberley is, and I would say that this is precisely why she had access.
When he agreed to meet her, he wasn’t meeting ‘just anyone’, indiscriminately, as he seeks to suggest. He agreed to meet the daughter of a woman who had shared his friend’s life for many years and who he knew well.
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John Dalli thinking out loud…”Oh, fuck that DCG!” %$~!
[Daphne – He doesn’t use that word. His cultural background is different.]
If I got this right, Swedish Match is claiming that the “young female lawyer” was employed by them to meet Mr. Dalli.
Knowing this, and how Mr. Dalli has been very critical of Swedish Match, why is Mr. Dalli protecting the lawyer’s identity? He referred to confidentiality with Reno Bugeja to protect her identity yesterday.
He also said he did not investigate about her, because he had no interest doing so. Why wouldn’t he have an interest in knowing who this lawyer is when she is at the centre of the controversial meetings between the Commissioner, Silvio Zammit and Swedish Match?
Was it not Mr. Dalli who revealed the name of Mr. Silvio Zammit who was only referred-to as a ‘Maltese entrepreneur’ by OLAF?
On Dissett yesterday, John Dalli said that he has copies of three emails which he said he had obtained from Zammit.
We know that Dalli has published one of the emails, where there is only reference to Zammit and to ESTOC.
Details from those emails have now been published by the Wall Street Journal.
It seems that Dalli avoided the publication of the other emails because they refer to other parties, such as reference to the company which Zammit proposed would provide the ‘goods’ and bill for them.
One will need to read between the lines and look for the fine detail once those other two emails are published in full.
For all he knows, Rita Schembri and Gayle Kimberley could be talking together behind his back.
But of course he knows they aren’t.
Crucially where was the meeting of 10th February held ?
According to John Dalli, it didn’t take place.
Definitely not in Malta as the 10th Feb is a public holiday and Mr Dalli stated that he doesn’t meet people on a public holiday.
On the other hand if he is paid by the EU Commission, and 10 February is not a public holiday for the Commission, why did he feel free to take the day off? In Brussels they don’t celebrate the feast of St. Paul’s Shipwreck.
Daphne, well done. I had some respect for Reno Bugeja, but lost it all yesterday.
Had he investigated as he should have, he could have interviewed Gayle’s mother, Gloria Borg, who would have told him how Dalli knew her daughter.
Dalli’s story is falling to pieces and certainly you played a big part in all this.
Anyone for a glass of Marsovin?
Edgar, don’t tell me Gloria Borg is the one who lived with Mintoff gang members Il-Fusellu and, after he was shot dead, with Fenech Il-Kelly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6xwJ19WP-4
Rita Schembri used to be in Dalli’s secretariat in his finance days.
Why hasn’t Gayle KImberley been interrogated by the police yet?