Greed as a cover – Kevin Cassar
Edward Scicluna is the latest cabinet minister pointing fingers at the mastermind – Joseph Muscat. At the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry, Scicluna let rip: Muscat was running a “kitchen cabinet” which regularly “bypassed the system”. The “inner core”, he revealed, consisted of Muscat, chief of staff Keith Schembri and star candidate Konrad Mizzi.
A long list of accusations followed: Projects Malta (i.e. Konrad Mizzi) was not transparent and did not provide any information. Projects Malta “did what they liked”.
The American University of Malta, Vitals and Electrogas deals were not vetted by his ministry. He would have steered clear of the Vitals deal. He advised Muscat to remove Mizzi in 2016. The majority of the parliamentary group had given Muscat the same advice. He ignored them.
The most damning revelation was that Muscat’s government was like “a coin with two sides”. On one side, it was doing a good job. But on the other, there was a shadow, the elephant in the room.
He spent the bulk of his testimony distancing himself from Muscat and his “inner core”. “I wasn’t part of the inner core”, “there was no buddy buddy”, he was not involved in the Gaffarena scandal. He insinuated...