Joseph Muscat jumps into his car and races away from a question about who owns the Panama company Egrant Inc

Corrupt accountant Brian Tonna of Nexia BT set up THREE companies in Panama sheltered by trusts in New Zealand in March 2013, the process having begun immediately after the announcement of the general election result.

The three companies are associated with each other in every respect. One belongs to Konrad Mizzi and another to Keith Schembri. We know this because the arrangements were made by email and the emails were among the hundreds of thousands of emails and email attachments pulled from Mossack Fonseca’s server when it was hacked, and passed on to a German national newspaper, who called in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, leading to what became known as the Panama Papers.

But we don’t know who owns the third company, called Egrant Inc, because in one of those emails, Brian Tonna’s business partner, Karl Cini, tells Mossack Fonseca that he will give the details of the ultimate beneficial owner by voice over Skype, so that there is no recorded instruction in writing.

The natural conclusion, given how it has become clear since then that Konrad Mizzi, Keith Schembri and Joseph Muscat are operating as a triad, is that Egrant Inc belongs to Joseph Muscat.

And he can’t claim outrage or sue anybody who says as much publicly, because that would imply – by default – that Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi have done something very wrong in setting up those companies, when he makes believe to journalists and electors that they have not, that it’s perfectly all right to get into government and, as one of your first actions, set up a secret operation in Panama.

And note how one of Muscat’s minders elbows the journalist out of the way and says to him: “ERSAQ, L-GHAGEB.” For those who don’t speak Maltese, this means, literally: “Get out of the way, moron.”