Watch: Joseph Muscat Has Been Accused Of ‘Taking €16 Million A Year And Hiding Money In Dubai’
Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said he has been accused of illicitly earning €16 million a year and hiding the money in Dubai.
During an interview Emanuel on Cuschieri’s ONE Radio show Linja Ċara, Muscat gave his take on the charges against him after being given access to the parts of Gabriella Vella’s magisterial inquiry in which he is mentioned.
“There is only the testimony of an Indian national, whose intentions are unknown to me, who said he heard someone else say that Joseph Muscat is receiving €16 million a year. Marija Santa. When I tried to search for this alleged money, the inquiry said they couldn’t find it but that I will still be charged.”
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He said the inquiry also implies that he is hiding his money in Dubai but failed to provide any evidence other than that he has regularly visited the Emirati city.
“It’s as though I had to call you a fish because you like to swim, I’m amazed at this train of though,” Muscat said. “It’s not even the logic you would expect from a group of friends chatting at a bar over drinks and appetisers with everyone acting like an expert.”
Muscat said he has been given access to two collated reports compiled by Serbian and Irish experts, that amount to some 1,000 pages, as well as the charges against him.
However, he said the reports don’t include the reasoning that led the Attorney General to charge him on the basis of recommendations by magistrate Vella.
He said the inquiry didn’t even delve into the issue of whether his consultancy jobs were legitimate or not and is simply filled with assumptions about his trips to Dubai.
“It’s incredible how they reached this conclusion without checking the evidence or even questioning me. Some say that I should have been summoned during the inquiry, others that the police should have called me in – what I know is that no one called me in for questioning.”
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