To state that “hard evidence” exists that Dalli was aware that money was being asked and did nothing about it, but also that “no proof” exists of Dalli’s involvement makes no sense at all.

I don’t know what sort of ‘investigator’ Kessler is, but clearly he’s cornered himself nicely and can find no way out.

There is ‘hard evidence’ that there was ‘breach of ethics and misconduct’. What more clarity do you need?

Dalli should have resigned quietly in July when he was confronted with evidence that he acted against the Commissioners’ Code of Conduct.

He would have spared himself, the Prime Minister and Malta all this embarrassment.

Giovanni Kessler, Head of OLAF, referred to “unambiguous circumstantial evidence…” in his press conference soon after Dalli’s resignation.

I’m no lawyer so I had to look up what circumstantial evidence is and what I found confirmed what I knew that circumstantial evidence does not really prove much.

It’s like someone seeing someone entering a house and seeing that person run out of the house where a murder was committed.

It doesn’t mean that person committed the murder. I think this lack of clarity is not helping.

It looks unlikely that the police will secure a conviction against Dalli if it is a case of unethical conduct.

OK ,maybe I did not explain myself clearly . Gonzi is not involved in the sacking of ex-commissioner Dalli.

I don’t think that John Dall doesn’t know what the evidence is.

Most probably, he was asked to explain it during the interviews.

OLAF made it clear that it gave Dalli the opportunity to defend himself even with a lawyer. Dalli is not telling us everything.

It is his privilege. Slowly but surely facts are coming out.

If the emails were sent from the EUs own servers then that would be straight forward enough, they could just search through their own files.

If the emails were from outside the EU offices then that would involve court orders to access the files, wherever they may be.

I can think of any number of combinations of sequences of events that are too boring to list here.

But basically any email sent to the Swedes or ESTOC or anyone else will be traceable to the originating computer or mobile device unless the sender has covered their tracks.

You could use a public PC at a council or internet cafe and that would be hard to prove who sent it. But use your own PC at work or home and the place, date and time will be logged and available to the investigators, who are at this moment Malta’s finest boys in blue.

Could this be the email hacking that Dalli complained about?