Joseph Muscat Drops Court Case Against Magistrate And Opens A Fresh One
Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has dropped his constitutional case requesting the recusal of magistrate Gabriella Vella from an ongoing inquiry into the Vitals-Steward hospitals deal, and will open a new one.
Muscat said he took this decision after the court and the State Advocate agreed that the NGO Repubblika shouldn’t present its court application that triggered the inquiry.
Repubblika’s outgoing president Robert Aquilina has stressed that Muscat will only have the right to access these documents if he gets charged with a crime.
However, Muscat warned that Repubblika only doesn’t want to present it because it is “scared that its dirty game will be exposed as nothing more than a fishing expedition”.
State Advocate Chris Soler
He didn’t theorise why State Advocate Chris Soler, the government’s principal legal advisor, agrees with Repubblika’s legal argument.
Muscat insisted that he has “nothing to hide” and that his consultancy job that the magistrate is investigating is above board, so much so that he paid tax on his income.
“Someday, the truth will emerge as it did in the Egrant case. When that day comes, those responsible for this political frame-up will have to be held accountable,” he said.
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