For years prior to PL's victory in 2013, a number of companies making up Keith Schembri's business empire consistently posted losses.

Then Mr Schembri had the whistle blown on him in the Panama Papers, where it was implied that the man had the nearest thing to a treasure trove stashed away in havens from the BVI right across to the other end of the world.

A few weeks ago, giving testimony in court under oath, Mr Schembri, asserted that the choice he made to serve as Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister was made out of a sense of duty he felt he owed the country and not from any money-driven motivation.

To provide ironclad proof of this, he said that had that been the case he would have remained running his companies which were on a roll.

This clashes sharply with what his companies' audited accounts bear witness to.

Who's taking whom for dummies?

Joe Genovese