Watch: Police Still Have Joseph Muscat’s Phone With No Update For Former PM Since January Home Search
Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat confirmed that the police are still in possession of his mobile phone after it was confiscated during a search on his home last January.
In an interview with Lovin Malta, Muscat was asked to produce an email that would prove he paid for a 2014 stay at a French hotel that is owned by the Tomas Group.
“My phone was taken by the police,” Muscat responded.
Muscat’s phone, as well as the phones of his wife and children, was taken by police during a search on his home on 19th January 2022.
Back then, Muscat said the police asked him for information related to money in “consultancy fees” he had received from Accutor AG, the Swiss company which had worked with Steward Healthcare, the company which purchased the hospital concession from Vitals Global Healthcare.
The search was part of a magisterial inquiry that the NGO Repubblika had requested into the VGH contract.
Muscat said he hasn’t received an update from the police or magistrate Gabriella Vella since the search.
“I tried to give my version of facts but it seems no one wants to hear it,” he said. “It seems that whoever wants to play a game will play a game, I have nothing more to add.”
Police inspector Anthony Scerri, who led the search, has since resigned from the force but Muscat said he has no information in this regard.
“I don’t know this guy. As far as I know, I met him for the first time when he came to my house and it was the first and last time,” he said.
Muscat spent six years as Prime Minister of Malta before he was forced to resign at the end of 2019 in the midst of a political scandal triggered by Yorgen Fenech’s arrest for the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. He has since been appointed chairperson of the Malta Premier League.
Lovin Malta’s full interview with Muscat will be published over the weekend.
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