Simon Busuttil keeps trying to build mountains out of a few grains of sand. Even out of thin air.
On Xarabank, all we saw from Simon Busuttil were theatricals – more fitting on a stage than in an important debate – but not a single shred of concrete evidence to substantiate his allegations. Indeed, the Leader of the Opposition based his case solely on a picture of a couple of ‘travel bags’ which “two persons” were seen carrying when leaving Pilatus Bank on that eventful evening. The persons referred to were the chairman of Pilatus Bank and his risk manager. The chairman had explained that he had just arrived from Washington and had gone straight to the bank. And the bags he arrived with were the same bags he was seen leaving with when he left the bank to go to his hotel.
Quite telling was the fact that Simon Busuttil did not back the so-called transcript of two ‘Declaration of Trust’ allegedly linking Michelle Muscat to ‘Egrant’, which Daphne had released that same evening. Dr Muscat proved that the document was “forged “and a “frame-up”, especially due to the fact that the date Mrs Muscat had allegedly bought ‘Egrant’ was two years later than the original owner who had already sold it to Brian Tonna of Nexia BT. Brian Tonna had kept ‘Egrant’ as a shell company with no account in it until he closed it recently. Even Simon Busuttil realised that he had proved nothing, so much so that he ended admitting that “whether ‘Egrant’ belonged to Mrs Muscat or not is irrelevant”, when he has called for a protest meeting precisely on the allegation that Michelle Muscat owned ‘Egrant’. The mind boggles.
Yet, the Leader of the Opposition called another protest meeting in Valletta and called on Labour MPs “to sack the Prime Minister”. Albeit, as the Prime Minster told him, a number of PN MPs had even sent messages of solidarity to him and his wife about this disgusting attack.
I can now better understand why Marlene Farrugia has said that she “will teach him (Simon Busuttil) what he still doesn’t know”.
Eddy Privitera
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