So did Saviour Balzan tip off Keith Schembri?

Completely shamelessly, the Prime Minister addressed a press conference today and said that he knows the Malta Files include “people who are very close to the Nationalist Party”. That’s his standard manipulative terminology – “very close to the PN” but, you know, not actually in it.

That’s hardly the point though. I am far more exercised by the fact that the Prime Minister brazenly says that he was tipped off about the contents of the Malta Files, when the only people who could have told him about the contents are the corporate services firm from which the documentation was taken (highly unlikely) – Credence – or the 50% owner of Malta Today, who takes calls at 1am from Keith Schembri, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff.

In a surreal story, Malta Today reported: Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said today that he was informed that a number of people close to the Nationalist Party would be featured in upcoming reports to be published in the Malta Files.

This when it is the only newspaper in Malta with access to the contents of the Malta Files. And there it is, reporting how the Prime Minister has been informed of those contents.