National Book Council Chairman Mark Camilleri has said on Facebook that he is embarrassed by the Labour Party after last night’s revelations regarding OPM Chief of Staff Keith Schembri and Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi.

It was revealed on Wednesday that 17 Black was listed as the ‘main client’ and ‘possible Payer/Sender’ of Tillgate and Hearnville, the offshore Panamian companies owned by OPM Chief of Staff Keith Schembri and Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi. The information came from leaked emails obtained by German paper Süddeutsche Zeitung, and published by Times of Malta as part of the Daphne Project.

He said that while he will continue insisting that the PN and its politicians are engaging in a classist war against the working class and social development, he said, “it is definitely unjustifiable that a minister and chief of staff remain stuck to their seats of power after they get caught with clear proof of money laundering and corruption.” He said that such things used to happen under the PN. “As a member of the PL and a government official I feel embarrassed with this, and there are many others like me.”

A consortium of 18 news organisations are pursuing the stories that had been followed by slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, and will be publishing the work. The news organisations include the New York Times, The Guardian, and Süddeutsche Zeitung, the newspaper behind the Panama Papers revelations. The project (dubbed the Daphne Project) was organised by an investigative non-profit organisation called Forbidden Stories.