The court this morning again rejected an application by former Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil and PN MP David Casa, who requested an inquiry on Minister Konrad Mizzi and OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri in spite of a previous court decision denying a similar request stating “there was no basis” for one.
In a statement, the government said that the court decided that there is “no legal or judicial base, neither dead nor alive” to accept the request made by Busuttil and Casa.
A decree given by the inquiring magistrate, Francesco Depasquale, on 21 May 2018 “has no need to be given legal/judicial, autonomous or independent approval” and this is because the request made by Busuttil and Casa had been denied on 20 April 2018, and this was a final decision as it could not be appealed. He had ordered all the documents and evidence presented in that case to be passed over to Magistrate Ian Farrugia, who was already considering a similar application.
This is another court that turned down requests for an independent inquiry by Busuttil and Casa, the government said.
It follows the recent judgment by the Court of Criminal Appeal, presided by Magistrate Giovanni Griscti, on a request by Busuttil to investigate a number of persons, including the Prime Minister, Mizzi and Schembri. “Once again, it resulted that Busuttil was coming and going to court with no evidence,” the government said.
