It's time for Muscat, Mizzi and Schembri to stop play-pretend. The revelations in the Australian Financial Review are damning. There is documented proof they intended to deposit €350k a year, in an account opened with a minimum initial deposit of €1 million.
Since these amounts were never part of Mizzi's declared assets, and are far higher than his ministerial salary or rental income could ever gain, it is obvious that the account was intended to launder money (whether previously hidden for tax-evasion or gained through corrupt activities).
The laundering of money gained from an illegal activity is punishable by up to 18 years imprisonment (without any proof of the criminal activities from which they were gained being needed).
Faced with these public revelations, it is shocking that the Police Commissioner still does nothing, while Mossack Fonseca offices are being raided all around the world for prosecutors to get hold of evidence to present in a Court of Law.
At this point, it is not only Muscat, Mizzi and Schembri who are to be held accountable, but also the top brass of the Police Force, who with their inaction may also find themselves accomplices to a crime and having perverted the course of justice.
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