What inheritance?

Konrad Mizzi, when he knew he was rumbled and decided to stick to the PR maxim of reporting your own bad news – in this case, owning up to the New Zealand trust yesterday morning – said that he had set it up to “manage his inheritance”.

What inheritance? If he has any kind of inheritance waiting for him at all, then his father, Lawrence Mizzi, must have been on the take. He was a lifelong employee of Air Malta, from when it was set up in the early 1970s to his retirement. You don’t build anything that can be called “an inheritance” on a Malta government/state corporation salary.

And his father is still in his 60s, very much alive – so much alive, in fact, that his son appointed him to a state corporation when he became minister in 2013 – so there’s no sign that he’ll pop his clogs any time soon.

There’s no inheritance. When a scamming politician like this tells a journalist that his trust is there to “manage inheritance”, the first thing you do is check out his parents – because that’s where an inheritance comes from.