OPM minister Carmelo Abela has been called in for police questioning over allegations made by Alfred Degiorgio, one of the suspects in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Abela confirmed this in a Facebook post. He said that, after he had filed legal procedings against PN MP Jason Azzopardi and after he voluntarily released a police statement earlier this week, Degiorgio had named him with police in connection with the botched 2010 HSBC heist.

Abela said he answered all questions because he has "nothing to hide" and wanted the whole truth to come out. 

Abela worked as a bank manager at HSBC before entering politics. He had already testified about the case in court in 2011.

While he initially said he did not remember testifying in the case, he now said he had testified as a representative of the bank.

“From my own verifications, it has emerged that when I had testified in court years ago, it was not because the police had brought charges against me but because of charges against the bank's representative and I had testified on behalf of the bank,” he said in the Facebook post.

“The police have now rightly spoken to me about what was said to them by one of the Degiorgio brothers.”

He reiterated that he had never been investigated over this case and insisted that he was being targeted politically.

He said that Opposition Leader Bernard Grech, who had “made Azzopardi’s lie his own,” should shoulder responsibility together with the MP once the “truth is confirmed.”