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WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION €1.00 Newspaper post PAGE 2 PAGE 4 PG 9 • Voter madness WEDNESDAY • 28 SEPTEMBER 2016 • ISSUE 488 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Marsa car bomb detonated by mobile phone Panama committee chairman: 'Konrad Mizzi will be called to Brussels' MORE than 50 kilograms of can- nabis, which were destined for Malta, have been seized by police at the Port of Pozzallo in Ragusa. Nicola Musumeci, a 46-year- old man from Catania was ar- rested together with his 20-year- old daughter and her 3-year-old child. The two were detained as they were boarding the catama- ran to Malta. The two were said to have looked very anxious, which prompted authorities to search their car where police found 20 kilograms of cannabis resin, and about 30 kilograms of dried cannabis. Malta-Sicily cannabis bust MIRIAM DALLI A bomb attached to the bottom of a Ford Transit, underneath the driver's seat, was purposely aimed at injuring 36-year-old Joseph Cassar, of Qormi, sources close to the inves- tigation have confirmed. Although investigators are still an- alysing remains to determine what type of explosive device was used, MaltaToday is informed that the de- vice was detonated by mobile phone. The police are treating the case as attempted murder, having discarded an initial suspicion of a tyre mal- function. Cassar, a stevedore and a horse lover, was grievously injured in the attack, which took place at around 6.15pm on Monday on the busy Aldo Moro Street in Marsa during the rush hour. MATTHEW VELLA THE former energy minister, Konrad Miz- zi, will be among the first to be called to 'testif y' in the Panama Papers scandal be- fore a European Parliament committee, the chairman of the PANA committee has said. Today a minister without portfolio, Kon- rad Mizzi was the only EU minister to be revealed to have opened a Panama offshore company using Mossack Fonseca, the Pana- manian law firm from which over 11.5 mil- lion documents were leaked through the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists. Addressing a press conference after the first session of the committee in Brussels, chairman Werner Langen, a German MEP, said that although the list of European poli- ticians to be called to the committee was not yet finalised, "Malta's Minster Konrad Mizzi will surely be on it". Together with the Prime Minister's chief of staff, Keith Schembri, Mizzi opened a se- cret offshore company and an offshore trust in New Zealand through Mossack Fonseca's agent in Malta, the audit firm Nexia BT. Langen said that Mizzi would be invited to explain his involvement in the Panama Papers scandal to the committee. The prime minister's special envoy to the European Union, Cyrus Engerer, was busy taking notes during the entire committee sitting. Opposition leader Simon Busuttil has already said "there was no question" that minister Konrad Mizzi should respect an invitation from a committee of MEPs that was set up to investigate the Panama Pa- pers. "He should definitely go. There is no ques- tion about that," Busuttil told MaltaToday. "However there is only one way in which we can now stem the damage caused to Mal- ta's reputation by Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri and that is their immediate dis- missal." Minister without portfolio Konrad Mizzi: the minister will probably be invited to Brussels to appear before the Panama Papers committee, but is expected to refuse any such invitation