Werner Langer, president of the European Parliament PANA investigating committee, has written to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat urging him to use his authority to send Keith Schembri to Strasbourg on 18 May to be asked questions by the PANA Committee.

In the letter, Mr Langer said that the PANA committee visited Malta on 20 February and “had constructive talks with many interlocutors”. The OPM chief of staff, Keith Schembri, had however refused to attend a session with the committee.

“I however regret to have been informed of Mr Schembri’s refusal to meet the European Parliament delegation only very shortly before the scheduled meeting, on the street, by a post officer.”

Mr Langer goes on to urge the PM to use his authority to ask Mr Schembri to cooperate with the PANA committee, and invited him to attend a meeting in Strasbourg on 18 May.

The full letter can be seen here

Following this, Alternattiva Demokratika chairperson, Prof. Arnold Cassola, commented:"This is no April Fools joke.  It is shameful that the parliamentary investigative committee has to appeal to the Prime Minister to get him to force Schembri to go. People who have nothing to hide should not run away, as Keith Schembri has been doing for over a year".

s of Manoel Island informed the crowd gathered that they have written to the Prime Minister to look into the case. “It is now in the hands of the Government to make sure people are not tricked and to make a change” said Mr Callus. 

Mr Schembri, who together with Minister Konrad Mizzi was found to have secretly opened a company in Panama, had refused to attend the meeting in Malta claiming he was not an elected official.