Besides the claiming of innocence, one can spot several other similarities similarities between this bishop’s and John Dalli’s saga, including that the bishop handled “business deals worth billions of dollars” and that “in one trip to the Philippines, the indictment accuses him of suddenly coming into possession of assets worth $170m.”

One man who can shed lots of light on this way of operating is “Santu tal-hgieg”, Mario Tonna, whose 3 million euros seed capital in Dalli’s Azizija Glass Company Ltd. in Libya disappeared along with some 65 million euros lent to the company by the Social Development Fund in Libya.

Our Johnny is not exactly flavour of the month with the new Libyan administration, and we have to ask why. Santu wants to speak out, because he is hurt badly. But no one wanted to listen some time ago.