The Nationalist Party today said that officials from the Attorney General’s office and Police board were making calls to seek information about the whistleblower who spilled the beans on the Egrant company opened in Panama.

Addressing the media, Shadow Minister for Justice Jason Azzopardi said he had information that such calls were being made a day after the whistleblower gave her testimony in court to the magistrate holding an inquiry into the Egrant saga.

It has been revealed that Egrant Inc is a company in Panama that was opened on behalf of the Prime Minister's wife, along with two other companies opened by OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri and No Portfolio Minister Konrad Mizzi. The PM has refuted the allegations.

Speaking this afternoon, Dr Azzopardi said that all this is showing the falsity of the Prime Minister who, on the on hand, enacts a Whistleblower Act and now that someone is speaking up “about the corruption by criminals in Castille”, all government guns have come out blazing against the whistleblower.

PN deputy leader Beppe Fenech Adami said the “attack made by Castille criminals” on the whistleblower expose panic. “The behaviour of the Prime Minister and the criminals at Castille in the last 24 hours confirm their fear that the truth will come out,” Dr Fenech Adami said.

He said it is clear that the “Castille criminals” fed an untrue story to sections of the media and “intentionally turned the truth upside down”. He said nobody should believe these lies because “criminals resort to any measure not to end up in prison”.

While the whole of Malta was discussing the Panama Papers, the police were “interrogating and intimidating” a person who could uncover what was happening, Dr Fenech Adami said.

PN general council president and MP Paula Mifsud Bonnici said the PN leader will continue to offer protection to all those who have information about corruption.