The Prime Minister and Konrad Mizzi don’t know what Konrad’s company in Panama is called

When quizzed by journalists following his election as deputy leader last night, Konrad Mizzi said he doesn’t know what his company in Panama is called (“I don’t know offhand”).

This morning, when grilled by a reporter among others waiting for him outside a meeting, the Prime Minister said the same thing. He doesn’t know what Konrad Mizzi’s company in Panama is called.

They’re getting caught out in their own lies. Yesterday, they both said that the company is “already listed” in Mizzi’s “draft declaration of assets” which the Prime Minister claims to have seen and which Konrad Mizzi claims to have written already, months before it is due to be submitted to parliament.

If Mizzi listed it in his declaration, and if the Prime Minister read the declaration, then they both know what the company is called. I hardly think that Mizzi wrote “one (1) company in Panama” on the form.

They’re lying. They’re lying about not knowing what the company is called, and they’re lying about it being listed in Mizzi’s very premature “draft declaration of assets”, which exists in the same way that Chris Cardona’s ‘lease agreement’ on the Portomaso flat existed.

Now they’re trying to work out whether I know what the company in Panama is called, and whether they can take the risk of carrying on refusing to give the name to the press.