A couple of VERY interesting letters written by Manuel Mallia on behalf of his client, Power Plan Ltd

First cast your mind back to the way the Labour Party handled its press conferences on ‘l-iskandlu taz-zejt’ and ‘l-arlogg ta’ Tonio’ during the electoral campaign, with Manuel Mallia fronting the show.

Then read the two letters here:

MIMA1

MIMA2

Now put those two letters in the context of news reports of those press conferences in which Manuel Mallia claimed:

1. that he was the lawyer for the Farrugia family and not for Power Plan; that it was David Farrugia Sacco (failed Labour candidate and the man usually sitting with him at press conferences) who was the lawyer for Power Plan;

2. that he did not send a letter directly to George Farrugia’s lawyers but that they were copied in on correspondence;

3. that the Labour Party’s financial controller, Joe Cordina, had said he did not know anything about it and that he had not spoken to Cordina about it (The Malta Independent, 23 February: In his reply Dr Mallia said that once that Mr Cordina has declared that he was not aware of what was going on, he is not guilty and has no responsibility at all in this case. He added that he has not spoken to Mr Cordina about this case.) when Manuel Mallia’s letter dated 28 September 2010 alerted Cordina, in copy, to the real possibility of his nominee account being used for money laundering.

There’s another point to be made. Mallia’s letter on behalf of Power Plan, written to George Farrugia’s lawyer Siegfried Borg Cole, makes it clear that he and his client suspect Farrugia of money-laundering. But what does he do? Instead of advising Power Plan to go to the police, he has them hold out for what they can get out of him.

And then, when it’s convenient in the election campaign more than two years later, we cause a hue and cry and get the police involved.