All public tenders must pass through a series of checks, evaluations and due diligence, including a thorough analysis of the tenderer’s financial accounts and company details.

For a project worth €350 million, someone, somewhere must have deliberately skipped the financial part of the tender requirements.

Now we are being lumped with the consequences of this deliberate ‘oversight’.

As of this week, Busuttil hints he won’t. The hint directed primarily at the commision, blackmailed into politicsl expediency for an EU facing a crisis in consensus.

If, as is now amply clear, the bulk of capital is local, who’s to insist on the Maltese having to go through the dealer?

Saving BOV may be easier than we’ve been told by Muscat. The guarantee was announced to seal the sense of helplessness.

Your question would uncover the extent of resistance. Which could uncover further collusion. As you said, a double con.

Interesting points raised here. The media and the Opposition need to explain the issues involved in more mundane, accessible terms.

Now try explaining that to the likes of all the dimwits who think that the Panama Papers was a “story” invented by the Nationalists who are “jealous of Joseph”.