Judge Emeritus Antonio Mizzi, the Law Commissioner who Prime Minister Joseph Muscat selected to redact the Egrant Inquiry for its full publication, is referenced in the recordings of Melvin Theuma, the middleman in the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

In the recordings, Theuma can be heard asking Yorgen Fenech, the businessman charged in connection with the assassination, if he could speak to either Judge Antonio Mizzi or the Prime Minister to help speed up the release on bail for the three men alleged to have carried out the crime.

Fenech, it should be noted, told him no, saying it would be ill-advised to go to either without speaking to the Prime Minister’s former Chief of Staff Keith Schembri first.

The recordings have been passed onto the courts by Inspector Keith Arnaud.

Yesterday, after the Constitutional Court ordered the Attorney General to hand over a copy of the Egrant to Opposition Leader Adrian Delia, Muscat announced that he had asked Mizzi to analyse the ruling and propose ways how the report can be published in its entirety.

Egrant is one of the three offshore Panamanian company set up by Nexia BT, along with Keith Schembri and Konrad.

While the owner of Egrant is still unknown, with the conclusions only finding that it did not belong to Michelle Muscat, the companies form part of the secret offshore web that connects Fenech’s 17 Black, the Electrogas deal, and the Azerbaijan government.

Muscat had promised to publish the Egrant Inquiry in full (save some redactions for confidential information) soon after the conclusions were released. However, this failed to materialise, with Muscat repeatedly saying that the AG had told him not to do so.

Delia is also currently seeking advice to see if he can publish the infamous inquiry in its entirety. He has also called for the immediate resignation of the AG after the ruling found that he was breaching the Opposition Leader’s fundamental rights.

Mizzi was appointed to Law Commissioner last July. One of his last cases was overseeing an inquiry into the Panama Papers. This was controversial given that his wife is former Labour Party MEP Marlene Mizzi.