Watch: Joseph Muscat Is Lying About Leaks, Repubblika President Warns
Repubblika President Robert Aquilina has accused Joseph Muscat of lying that there were leaks from an ongoing magisterial inquiry into the Vitals-Steward saga.
In an interview with Lovin Malta, Aquilina also warned the former Prime Minister lied when he alleged the entire investigation against him was the result of some shady Masonic plot.
“Joseph Muscat is lying,” Aquilina said bluntly. “I have challenged Joseph Muscat to present in court one piece of evidence to back up these two allegations but he failed to do so.”
“He said that messages exist [to back up his claims] but where are these messages? It would be in his interest to present them in court but he didn’t do so.”
“I challenged him to repeat what he said out of court, and what he instructed Emanuel Cuschieri to say on his behalf, that Freemasonry is behind these investigations and that Freemasons are involved in the police, courts and Repubblika.
“However he didn’t do so because he knows it is a lie that he invented himself because justice is clearly approaching him.”
Aquilina stood by his decision to withhold Repubblika’s court application that it presented when requesting the inquiry some four and a half years ago.
“Presenting these documents would go against the spirit of the law,” he claimed. “This wasn’t Joseph Muscat’s first request for these documents. He had filed a request to the inquiring magistrate and we found out from Muscat himself that this request was denied.”
“As a crime suspect, he doesn’t have a right to these documents and we didn’t want to act as tools against the interests of justice.”
“If he is one day charged with a crime, he will have a right to discovery and all the documents but so far he has no right for them.”
“Giving him access to these documents could constitute tipping off and we don’t want to help Joseph Muscat to go against the inquiring magistrate’s decision not to give him access to these documents.”
Muscat has filed a constitutional case to remove magistrate Gabriella Vella from the inquiry, warning that the “leaks” and certain Facebook comments by her brother mean she cannot be trusted to be an impartial investigator.
Joseph Muscat in a recent Smash TV interview with Emanuel Cuschieri
Aquilina warned that Muscat’s behaviour is the “typical attitude of mafiosi”.
“Whenever they feel that justice is getting closer, they start attacking the magistrates who are investigating them and the judges who are deciding these cases,” he said.
“Joseph Muscat is doing this and worse. He is trying to demonise and delegitimise her because he knows that there is an inquiry that has been going on for four and a half years that he and his accomplices have done their utmost to stop.”
“He doesn’t like the fact that justice appears to be finally taking its course.”
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