“I deny it all,” says John Dalli. “Daphne Caruana Galizia is a terrorist.”

As any sensible person will conclude, the word of a corrupt liar who got a spa doctor in Germany to write certificates saying he was too psychologically traumatised to take a two-hour flight from Brussels to Malta, so evading police prosecution, and who also lied to the European Commission about his secret dashes across the pond to the Bahamas, and their purpose, is worth jack. And that’s being polite.

Yes, John Dalli has psychological problems indeed, but they do not affect his ability to fly, as his monthly trips to Dubai, always on the 20-something day of the month, show. What he does suffer from is persecution mania, paranoia, a victim complex, a corrupt hunger for money he shouldn’t have, an eye permanently on the main chance, and a belief that, like Pharoah, he has got to kit out his tomb with riches for the afterlife.

“I deny it all. I never met the subcontractors. I have nothing to do with it. Daphne Caruana Galizia is a terrorist,” he said to The Malta Independent.

Well, what do you know – he sounds just like Franco Debono and Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando in 2012. Whatever their mental illness is, and though I will not hazard a guess in public be sure that I have reached my conclusions in private, they share it.

Malta’s public life is afflicted with dangerously unstable men with no principles or scruples, and they have migrated as though magnetised to Joseph Muscat and Keith Schembri as the source and means to achieving their desires.

Be sure to coat your sarcophagus in platinum, Dalli, and turn the bunker under your illegal L-Ghorfa in Siggiewi into a pharoanic tomb, its walls painted with the numbers of your secret bank accounts and bank balances in a repeat pattern, and the floor covered with ranked effigies of servants all wearing the face of Joseph Muscat and your daughters. You never know: perhaps you CAN take it with you when you go.

What an awful, corrupt man he is – the eternal boil that will not be lanced by anything other than the Grim Reaper. Even his wife’s premature death from worry hasn’t stopped him as he hacks, hacks and hacks away at the coalface of shady deals, sneaking from one highly suspect rendezvous to another, with or without a small entourage of crooks.

The worst of it is the brazen lies. Now he is claiming to have no idea who Sri Ram Tumuluri and Shawkat Ali are – this when he was in business with Ali, who has been in Malta for years, as records at the Companies Registry show. But more about that later. I have some pressing commitments right now.

But before I go, this point has to be drummed home because in The Malta Independent’s story, it was obscured. That crook is trying to make out that this was a piece of fiction that I plucked from my mind purely to perpetrate a terrorist attack on him. But all I did was quote, IN FULL AND VERBATIM, a due diligence report prepared by a leading consultancy firm in respect of one of its clients who had been asked by Vitalis Healthcare (which has taken over Gozo General and St. Luke’s) to get involved with the project.

It is the writer of the due diligence report who obtained the information that “a senior former government minister” – who could only have been John Dalli at that point in 2013 – flew to Dubai to meet the subcontractors and explain to them how to ‘win the bid’. And he obtained that information FROM THE SUBCONTRACTORS THEMSELVES, WHO WERE THE VERY ONES THIS “FORMER SENIOR GOVERNMENT MINISTER” MET.

Meanwhile, the obscene Chris Fearne, Minister for Health, pretends nonchalance (“somebody told me that there was something on some blog”) about very serious allegations contained in a due diligence report, about matters which are now in his portfolio and for which he is responsible, and claims not to have read the story which has been read 32,000 times so far (I’ve just checked the stats). That alone is extremely irresponsible and pretending not to bother is a grave insult to the public. But that is exactly what we have come to expect from these crooked operators.

The videos below are from The Malta Independent.