Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his wife Michelle, went before the Magistrate who is looking into the Egrant allegations this morning, and testified.
The couple left the law courts walking hand-in-hand, and the Prime Minister said that they testified to "clear our name from the mud being slung at us." He hopes the investigation will not take long to conclude.
The couple was greeted by a small group of supporters outside.
An inquiry, being led by Magistrate Aaron Bugeja, is ongoing, following allegations by Daphne Caruana Galizia linking Mrs Michelle Muscat to Egrant. She claimed that evidence was in documents found in a safe in a kitchen at Pilatus Bank in Malta. The Magistrate went to the bank yesterday morning. The night before, the head of the bank was seen leaving, carrying two bags.
Dr Muscat, and his wife, have both denied the allegations levelled against them.
OPM Chief of Staff Keith Schembri also testified during the inquiry, and told the press that he said all he had to say to the inquiring magistrate. He held that his Panama company did not have any bank accounts.
Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, on her personal blog, said that she refused to appear before the Magistrate, stating that anything she had to say was on her blog, and she would not drop everything (her work) and come running on short notice. She highlighted that, despite the Magistrate's best efforts, "the inquiry can only be a sham, because the order for it was given only after large trolleys of documents were seen being taken out of the offices of Nexia BT (but not caught on film), and the Pilatus Bank chairman and his risk manager were filmed carrying large bags out of the bank’s offices".