Commissioner of Police prevents investigation/prosecution of Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi

The Commissioner of Police released the pictured statement this morning in response to the story in response to the story in In-Nazzjon that he had intimated that Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri were set to be charged.

My own view of the matter, incidentally, is that the Commissioner quoted the law which bars the police from giving details of those who are being investigated or are about to be charged simply to fob off questions put to him by Frank Psaila of Net TV. Because he is slow-witted, it failed to occur to him how this would be reasonably interpreted.

The Commissioner’s statement says: “As has been stated already on 24th March last year, there is no reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed, which might lead to an investigation.”

This is absolute rubbish, of course – and again, because he is slow-witted, the Commissioner of Police fails to realise that this will be interpreted rationally as the ultimate evidence that he is preventing the further investigation and prosecution of Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi (and others).

On 24th March last year, the Mossack Fonseca documents had not yet reached the public domain. The Panama Papers launched on 2nd April. And on 24th March, too, the Commissioner of Police had not yet received the formal report prepared by the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit, with a request for prosecution.