Watch: Police’s ‘inaction’ is further testament of the widespread corruption - Busuttil

Opposition leader Simon Busuttil today denounced the fact that he had not yet been contacted by the police commissioner 12 hours after he had flagged corruption claims against Keith Schembri.  However, Dr Busuttil said he would not meet with the commissioner were he to contact him because he did not trust him. This alone, Dr Busuttil said, was further testament to the fact that the country’s institutions had been paralysed by the Labour government. Dr Busuttil was addressing the media outside the law courts in Valletta, immediately after he filed an application to present “clear and detailed evidence” that the prime minister’s top aide received commissions from the citizenship scheme.  According to the PN leader, Mr Schembri received two €50,000 payments from Nexia BT owner Brian Tonna, who in turn owned a secret Panama company by the name of Willerby Trade Inc. Money was deposited in a Pilatus bank account, belonging to Mr Schembri. The latter has denied such claims saying the transaction was related to a loan he had given Mr Tonna in 2012. In his comments, Dr Busuttil said this incident was further proof that corruption had become “institutionalised” and was spreading to...