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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 14 APRIL 2024 7 INTERVIEW The following are excerpts from the interview. The full interview can be found on maltatoday.com.mt as well as our Facebook and Spotify pages. Scan this QR code to see the full interview. The PL accuses you of being the PN's 'extreme faction'. While your statute bars the involvement of politicians and political parties, you worked and continue to work with people who are close or were close to the PN. Your brother is a PN MP, you work closely with Manuel Delia and lawyer Jason Azzopardi handles your legal cases. The ques- tion does arise… I don't blame people, but I try to draw a distinction between genuine opinions and the Labour Party spin. The party in government does everything in its power so that people who contribute to drag- ging the country out of the abyss the same government has dragged us into, are demonised... In the situation we find ourselves over the rule of law in Malta, we welcome any human resource that can help us. The people you mentioned are all capable people, who I enjoy col- laborating with, and through that collab- oration we have managed to keep alight the flame of hope for justice to be done... I speak to people from the PL, and they do complain on the direction the country has taken. They tell me it's not easy for them to go public with that opinion and are not comfortable in doing so. If I had to be the devil's advocate, Joseph Muscat was never mentioned in anything. What convinces you to think that Muscat is the "head of the snake"? Even Konrad Mizzi has not been men- tioned anywhere, but Robert Abela kicked him out of the party. Why did he kick out Mizzi, and not Muscat? I have no doubt that Robert Abela knows, like me, that Joseph Muscat was a corrupt prime minister, but while he has the political strength to kickout Mizzi, he is not pow- erful enough to kick Muscat out, because he is still more popular among Labour voters than Robert Abela. Muscat created the climate of impunity which led to the murder of a journalist. Muscat says he shouldered responsibility. Do you be- lieve him? Even Konrad Mizzi says that, but the reali- ty is that from information I have received Joseph Muscat lost the Cabinet's trust and asked them for a more graceful exit rather than being humiliated. Everyone was ex- pecting Chris Fearne to replace him, and then Muscat saw in Robert Abela political ambitions, approached him and reached some sort of deal with him, which clearly, he no longer wants to be part of. You are very sceptical of the Police Commissioner and the Attorney General. One must take into consid- eration that these are com- plex investigations. You would also be among the first to call them out if the case in court is not proven. Shouldn't they be given the time to investigate? The investigations into Pilatus Bank were finished when the magisterial inquiry was finished. They spent €7.5 million on that inquiry, with forensic experts from the FBI and CIA contributing to that in- vestigation. All they had to do was obey what the inquiring magistrate told them. They had to initiate criminal procedings against the mentioned persons, but they did the opposite. The design of the abuse is clear - they opted to pardon two crimi- nals instead of carrying out their job. Will we one day see Repub- blika contest elections? Absolutely not. There were times when people approached us to contest the elections as a party, but it is not the NGO's role, and it never will be. PHOTOS: JAMES BIANCHI / MALTA TODAY