PN deplores issue of arrest warrant against whistleblower

The Nationalist Party has deplored the issue of an arrest warrant against the former Pilatus Bank employee who was whistleblower in the Egrant allegations against the prime minister and his wife. The shadow minister for justice, Jason Azzopardi, said in a statement this contrasted sharply with government boasting of having enacted a law to protect whistleblowers. A court was told yesterday that the Malta Police  have no information on the whereabouts of Maria Efimova. The arrest warrants were issued after she did not turn up for court proceedings. The woman is the subject of at least two criminal proceedings. She is accused of defrauding Pilatus Bank and having made false accusations against Superintendent Denis Theuma and inspectors Jonathan Ferris and Lara Butters. READ: European, international arrest warrants issued against Russian whistleblower Dr Azzopardi said the PN could not tolerate a situation where the whistleblower and her family were intimidated by Pilatus Bank, about whose operations, concerns had been expressed by the European Parliament and its Pana Committee.  "There is no longer any doubt that that under a Muscat government, the law is not equal to everyone,"...