Only in a thoroughly corrupt state with an emasculated press can a person with such a track record end up as the head of the Prime Minister’s secretariat, and hold his trust to boot. No wonder we’re in such a mess.

That explains it all. You don’t get to be Joseph Muscat’s top man without such a track record.

He joined the Bank of Valletta as a teller in the early 90s and was asked to leave when malpractice was discovered.

No, I did not – pray tell some more if you can please.

And if “the people making the payments” are not “outside the civilised democratic world”, all one has to do is route payments through a paper entity that does lie “outside the civilised democratic world”, which is one reason (albeit not obvious at face value) why a number of intermediaries have registered addresses in such countries as China.

There must be businessmen who work with Kasco Group who can shed some information as through which bank they effect payments.

Not all payments originate in Malta and have to go through Maltese banks. He can simply organise payments to be made to a bank outside the European Union that is linked to his BVI/Panama companies. This is particularly straightforward when the people making the payments are outside the civilised democratic world: that is, the Middle East, Azerbaijan, China, Libya and so on.