Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil said tonight that the Prime Minister surely knows who the ministers involved in the Gozo drugs case are and, as a minimum, should name them.

The case revolves around a statement given to the police during a drug investigation in 2013, which was changed following a meeting involving "two senior politicians" and family members of the suspects. The claims were made by MaltaToday. The Office of the Prime Minister, in a statement released on the 26 of February, ordered an inquiry and now the investigation will conclude tomorrow.

Dr Busuttil was speaking on Net Television on a current affairs programme named Mhux Ghax Jimpurtani.

"You do not need to be an expert to figure out who the politicians involved are. Out of Simon Busuttil or the Gozo Minister, who has access to the Gozo Ministry? And as for the second politician, who was said to have arrived with a police escort, who goes to a Ministry with a police escort? It is either the Prime Minister or the (then) Police Minister. As a minimum, the Prime Minister should tell us who the people involved are," said Dr Busuttil this evening.

"Hearing you (the presenter) describing the case, and the case of Identity Malta, I ask myself how is it possible that we are dealing with such scandals in the year 2017?," Dr Busuttil said.

"With regards this case specifically, the first thing that I expect, in the name of decency, is for Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to at least tell us who the politicians involved are."

"There is no need to conduct an investigation in order to know who the politicians involved are. If I were the Prime Minister, and had heard the facts of the case, I would go to my MPs and cabinet and demand that they tell me who entered the Gozo Ministry on the day in question. We have no doubt that the Prime Minister knows who the politicians involved are. We are very concerned about this inquiry. I think this inquiry will be a white-wash."

"This is a serious case, a case where the persons involved admitted (to a crime), and after political interference their statement was allowed to be changed. They were not arraigned in court."

The Opposition Leader also spoke of the Identity Malta scandal, which was revealed by The Malta Independent on Sunday. Documents obtained by the newspaper show that in a report with a sample of 300, it was found that 80 had more than one ID card number attached to a person's name, meaning they are able to vote more than once.

Dr Busuttil chastised the government for flatly denying the story rather than taking steps to correct the shortcomings. He pleaded with the government to protect Malta's democracy. One needs to have peace of mind that democracy is in order, but this is not so under a Labour government. Labour cannot even guarantee this basic matter when it comes to democracy.

Turning to the €8.9 million surplus announced by the National Statistics Office based on the consolidated fund (accruals calculations not yet carried out), Dr Busuttil said:

"Capital expenditure has been halved. No wonder there is a government surplus. Money generated surpasses expenses, however there has been a lot of waste: corruption, positions of trust, incompetence. If I was Prime Minister I would cut the waste and keep the projects."

Dr Busuttil acknowledged that the economy has grown, but asked by the journalist to speak with the every-day person on the street and ask them whether they have felt the distribution of wealth or whether their lives have improved over the past four years.

Turning to Air Malta, he called it "a classic example of the Prime Minister's incompetence. The airline was going through a successful restructuring programme, and now nobody knows what happened to this programme. Air Malta workers are going through a period of uncertainty, but the population also has an interest in keeping Air Malta, as the airline connects us to the rest of the world."

Referring to the one-year anniversary of the Panama Papers scandal, Dr Busuttil insinuated that the Prime Minister could not remove OPM Chief of Staff Keith Schembri and Minister Konrad Mizzi, stating that this is either because they know too much about him or because the Prime Minister is also involved. He also pointed to the European Parliament PANA committee saying the scandal looks like "a text book case of money laundering".

In reply, the Labour Party said that Busuttil wants to be judge and jury in any inquiry. Each time there is an investigation he tries to belittle it unless it comes out with a report that is suitable to his purposes.