The declaration – especially for newly elected members – should give a snapshot about the subject person’s wealth, whereas the subsequent declarations would indicate the capital accretion over the years – supposedly ‘serving the public’. Any capital accretion that does not fit in with the income/capital flows should be flagged and duly investigated independently.

Kicking off with 0.5m in unverified cash funds, gives ample leeway for ‘honourable’ members to receive kickbacks – which they can pass by as being the cash funds they held at home.

There have even been reports of banks asking clients who want to withdraw a large cash sum from their own account what they want the money for, before releasing it. Yet, half a million in a cash at home raises no eyebrows. Unreal.

What can I say? I’ve been sounding the alarm on the Xarabank cabal for over eight years now. Like a fucking reed shaken with the wind.

Our Maltese compatriot in Ragusa applies for 450000 euros in EU funds for teaching investigative journalism. ( ATTN : BAXXTER)

[Daphne – 450 euros, not 450,000. The Italians use a comma instead of a decimal point, and in any case, there are only two noughts after the comma and the amount is given in words.]

It’s easy graft now.