An investigation by Reuters and Times of Malta recently revealed that 17 Black, the Dubai company owned by Yorgen Fenech, made a profit of €4.6 million from Enemalta's purchase of a windfarm in Montenegro back in December of 2015; a deal which also included former Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi.

In light of this discovery, members of the current Cabinet who were part of the previous administration under former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's leadership have been bombarded with questions on the Montenegro deal asking whether this controversial deal was discussed among the Cabinet prior to fruition.

On Tuesday, while speaking to Net News, Family Minister Michael Falzon, who was Parliamentary Secretary for Planning back then, was asked about this and he replied by saying that the deal was never discussed among the Cabinet.

Notably, back in 2016, Muscat had asked Falzon to resign following the publication of a damning NAO report into the Gaffarena expropriation deal. 

The NAO report had found that Falzon and other government officials failed to safeguard the government's interest in the controversial deal. 

Despite the findings of the NAO report, Michael Falzon had insisted he never interfered in the Gaffarena land negotiations. He had claimed that he found the report somewhat 'confusing'. "There were parts in which the report said I should have interfered and other parts where it states I should have kept my distance", Falzon had said.

Today, The Malta Independent asked Falzon if he feels any sense of injustice towards his forced resignation back then, seeing that Muscat was quick to sack him but kept defending Konrad Mizzi till the end.

"I will definitely not be the one to judge the situation," Falzon said. "What I can say for sure is that I have always been and will always be loyal to the PL, I served under multiple leaders and I will keep on doing the same."

Asked if he feels that he was being used as the sacrificial lamb in that situation, especially considering his disagreement with what the report had read, Falzon said that it is not a question of what one feels as it is something bigger than that.

He reiterated that everything he has done always had the best interest of the PL in mind, "and its interest will always come first."

This comes a day after the Labour party's parliamentary group and PL Executive Committee and Prime Minister's Robert Abela's decision to kick Mizzi out of the PL Parliamentary Group.

The decision to kick him out was a near unanimous decision, as 71 of the 73 attendees voted for him to no longer be part of the group, while there was one abstention and one vote against.

PM Abela's decision to remove Mizzi from the parliamentary group is one that former PM Muscat has been incessantly asked to take after the numerous allegations that Mizzi has faced with regards to the Panama Papers and the Vitals Healthcare deal. However, Muscat had insisted on Mizzi's innocence and never asked for his resignation even during his last few moments as PM towards the end of 2019.