PANA committee in Malta: The truth must come out

“Minister Konrad Mizzi and the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Keith Schembri will have the perfect opportunity to justify their actions with MEPs of the Panama Inquiry Committee,” said the PN MEPs. 

In February 2017, Members of the European Parliament will be travelling to Malta as part of their work in the Panama Inquiry Committee. They are tasked with investigating the shady dealings revealed by the Panama Papers and make recommendations to improve anti-money laundering legislation.

“The truth must come out. Corruption and money laundering must be fought. It is right and proper that the European Parliament has taken this direction. The European public, including the Maltese people, deserve no less. This inquiry Committee insisted all along for this Malta visit, which is the first visit of this Committee outside Brussels,” said the Head of Delegation David Casa MEP.

MEP Roberta Metsola said, "the European Parliament investigation moving to Malta, will give Konrad Mizzi a chance to explain the details of his secret financial set up and why he choose to circumvent  EU safeguards by setting them up in third countries on the other side of the world. The visit will also give a platform for our financial services industry to back our arguments as to why Konrad Mizzi's case should not be used as a guise to impinge on Malta's financial services systems."

MEP Therese Comodini Cachia said; “David, Roberta and I worked from the very beginning in this inquiry committee in order to make sure that instances like these do not happen again in Malta and in Europe. MEPs hailing form the whole political spectrum understood the urgency of the Malta case and this is clear from this decision taken by the Conference of Presidents of all political groups.”