Well, if John Dalli IS arrested and charged, Joseph Muscat will be the first to know
“And if you give me a piece of paper and a pen, I can jot down my bank account details…”: John Dalli (in white socks) meets Muammar Gaddafi
This has turned out to be a really big week for news. From a report on timesofmalta.com:
During his testimony yesterday, Inspector Gafà, from the Economic Crimes Unit, referred to Mr Zammit’s statements given during several interrogations over the past few weeks and pointed out inconsistencies concerning whether Mr Dalli was aware of his request for a bribe.
In one such instance, following an overnight stay at the police lock-up in Floriana, Mr Zammit released a declaration claiming he was acting on behalf of others.
However, when the police pointed out that this suggested Mr Dalli was implicated, Mr Zammit withdrew his declaration.
Then, in his last interrogation before he was arraigned on Tuesday, Mr Zammit made a spontaneous, categorical declaration that Mr Dalli was not involved in the matter. Nonetheless, the inspector yesterday revealed that the investigation had not been concluded and that more people could be arraigned.
When he was later asked point blank by presiding Magistrate Anthony Vella if he intended charging anyone else, Mr Gafà was uncomfortable naming anyone.
However, Assistant Commissioner Michael Cassar, who was also present at the hearing, said there was no plan to arraign lawyer Gayle Kimberley, a protagonist in the investigations, or her lover, Iosif Galea, leaving a question mark as to whether it will be Mr Dalli.
Except for these sporadic declarations, Mr Zammit mostly refused to answer the investigators’ questions and even “played games”, the inspector said. For instance, he repeatedly said he had evidence that would prove his innocence and show that OLAF had done a poor job of investigating. But when asked to point the police to this evidence, he would say it was in “the North Pole, the South Pole, East and West”.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121213/local/-Dalli-was-ready-to-take-risks-.449339
Big week for news?
Then you must have been really excited when the bwsc saga hit the headlines. You’d surely agree it was explosive news. Pity I can’t recall having read anything you penned about it back then. Wonder why.
[Daphne – I actually told you why, back then. It’s boring. It’s a story with absolutely no human interest at all. It is as nothing, in terms of news value compared to stories about judges being bribed by drug dealers, other drug-dealers getting shot, and ‘human interest’ complications in the EU Commissioner’s case.]