Kessler must be wondering what sort of place Malta is that Dalli rose to such prominence

John Dalli (centre) with his henchman Silvio Zammit (right) and his other sidekick Iosif Galea, who has somehow succeeded in keeping a low profile in this corruption scandal even though he was quite obviously an integral part of it, given that he was both a Dalli sidekick and embroiled in an extra-marital affair with the Maltese lawyer Gayle Kimberley, who was interviewed by OLAF at the time.

From the pathologically paranoid and seriously ill-advised remarks to the press which John Dalli made yesterday in retaliation to the interview which the European Commission’s top anti-fraud investigator, Giovanni Kessler, gave to The Sunday Times:

I believe that the conclusion of these procedures should be judicial action against Kessler and against the employees of Swedish Match, Hildingsson, Gabrielsson and Delfosse who have concocted and implemented the set-up against me. Not to the mention politicians and functionaries in Brussels and in Malta who were privy to this fraud.

He wants the world to know that he’s been framed by a giant, complicated conspiracy which somehow also managed to persuade his henchman Silvio Zammit to allow himself to be recorded pretending to ask for a bribe of very many millions – for which John Dalli apparently has forgiven him because he rants and raves against everyone except him.