Is Malta Today’s Miriam Dalli a little slow, perhaps?

Good work, Mir-yum

She reports in Malta Today:

“I am the leader of the party and I will set our standards. It is unacceptable that a person with a public role, or who held a political a role, is listed on this list,” Busuttil said, referring to the as yet unpublished Hervé Falciani Swiss Leaks list.

The only Maltese name confirmed to be on the list is that of Tancred Tabone, the former Enemalta chairman facing bribery charges. Pressed to confirm whether Zammit’s and Falzon’s names were on the list, Busuttil replied “I don’t know”.

Why on earth is she asking SIMON BUSUTTIL to confirm whether Michael Falzon and Ninu Zammit are in the Swiss Leaks data? They themselves confirmed, one on Saturday and the other on Sunday, that they are.

Miss Dalli clearly hasn’t even bothered to read up on what Swiss Leaks is. It’s the ENTIRE DATA BASE of HSBC Geneva Private Bank for all the years up to 2007, the year when contractor Hervé Falciani copied the lot and took it to France.

Both Ninu Zammit and Michael Falzon admitted over the weekend that they had accounts at that very bank before 2007. So obviously, Miss Dalli, their names and entire banking record at HSBC Geneva are in that data base, waiting to come out and be matched to their statements, possibly even with bankers’ notes on what they wanted done and what was said at their meetings, as we can read already about those politicians and public officers of whom details have emerged. Tancred Tabone is one of them. The Guardian has access to the database and that’s how it was able to report on exactly how much he held in his account and the banker’s notes taken after meetings with him.

Not that there’s a lot to be matched with Zammit’s statement. He didn’t even tell us how much he’d been hiding. Michael Falzon, at least, did so.