Michael Falzon and the Bank of Valletta

Some news reports today deal with the matter of whether Michael Falzon will have to return all or part of his golden handshake if and when he returns to work at the Bank of Valletta.

There’s hardly the point, though, is it.

The discussion should centre on whether a politician who has been dismissed – for he was dismissed, he did not resign – for abuse of power and corrupt dealings with cronies should go back to work for, of all things, a bank. This would be an issue even if he were a teller, let alone executive head of the bank’s legal office, which is what he was when he left to become a member of the cabinet.

Even if, and this is stretching it, he really did know nothing as he claims, then this renders him just as unfit. Did he know what was going on at the bank’s legal office, if he now claims not to know what was going on in the Lands Department under his watch?

Doesn’t he have to pass some kind of ‘fit and proper’ test under the law to work in a bank at that level?

I’d be interested in knowing where Marco Gaffarena banks, and how many times he visited Michael Falzon at his office at the Bank of Valletta.