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In the morning after news broke that the former Pilatus Bank chairman Sayed Ali Sadr Hasheminejad had been taken into custody in the United States on charges that he funnelled over $115 million from Venezuela to Iran, journalists naturally turned to Finance MProof in the living room - David Casa
In the morning after news broke that the former Pilatus Bank chairman Sayed Ali Sadr Hasheminejad had been taken into custody in the United States on charges that he funnelled over $115 million from Venezuela to Iran, journalists naturally turned to Finance Minister Edward Scicluna to ask what action the Maltese government would be taking after that. The minister’s reply was: “Come on, will you be asking me such questions this morning?” Journalists also approached him and even sent him questions in the afternoon and the evening. However, no better answer than his “come on” was forthcoming. During a debate I had with Alfred Sant on TV chat show Xarabank a fortnight ago, the Labour MEP, who heads the Labour delegation, had a very similar response. For at least six or seven times, his retort to the endless list of corruption allegations I mentioned up a simple “Oh, come on”. This rhetoric is no simple slip of the tongue or coincidence. It is exactly the attitude this Labour administration adopts and wishes to instill in the public. A nonchalance that is meant to silently suppress criticism and protestors – as well as the genuinely concerned Labour voter – by stressing that what is... Read more