A damning report concludes that criminal investigations should start against Minister Konrad Mizzi on alleged money laundering and the possible existence of money derived from crime, MEP David Casa said.
The Nationalist MEP said he was now in possession of the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit report which was completed last March but kept under wraps.
Although eight months have passed since then, this report remains at the FIAU "under lock and key", Mr Casa said.
"This is cast-iron evidence of the collapse of the rule of law and the political capture of yet another institution, if ever any more evidence was still necessary.
His statement comes a day after an MEP delegation visited Malta to probe rule of law in the wake of Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder.
"The fact that the FIAU is led by the Attorney General Peter Grech and by the Deputy Police Commissioner Silvio Valletta, who is married to Minister Justyne Caruana, shows just how much Malta’s institutions have become pawns in the hands of the government. They have become spineless, powerless and useless," Mr Casa said, through a statement from the European People's Party.
To add insult to injury, during the meeting with a...
