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Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Fine becoming partly cloudy Visibility Good Wind West Southwest force 5 becoming Northwest. 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Zammit Lewis was replying to a parliamentary question put forward by Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi. The bank's details were not divulged in the justice minis- ter's reply, but he confirmed that he was referring to Pila- tus Bank in a Facebook post. The inquiry was concluded in December, having been led by Magistrate Ian Farrugia. Its conclusions are yet to be pub- lished. The inquiry had been launched in November 2018, just days before the bank was shut down by the European Central Bank (ECB). The bank's administrator, Lawrence Connell, noted in a report tabled in parliament how a few days before the ECB revoked its license, a magiste- rial inquiry started and access to Pilatus Bank's premises and systems was restricted. Lawrence Connell was made bank administrator after for- mer chairman Ali Sadr was arrested in the United States over sanction-busting and money laundering. Early in March, the bank also lost an EU Court appeal to nullify an email from the European Central Bank, del- egating certain decisions on the suspension of its banking licence, to the Maltese finan- cial regulator. Pilatus has filed a host of cases in the EU Court to chal- lenge the suspension its bank- ing licence in the beginning of 2018, after its owner and chairman Ali Sadr Hashem- inejad, was deemed not fit and competent to run the bank. Pilatus Bank magisterial inquiry cost €7.5 million Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis reveals magisterial inquiry into Pilatus Bank cost taxpayers €7.5 million