This morning, Shadow Minister for Justice, Dr Karol Aquilina, conducted an experiment to see the amount of work Police Commissioner Angelo Gafà needed to do to present evidence in court for the perjury charges against Christian Borg, the business partner of Prime Minister Robert Abela, the Nationalist Party said Wednesday.

Yesterday, Borg was acquitted by the Court because the Police Commissioner failed to present a simple transcript of the testimony in which Borg was accused of giving false evidence under oath. Borg was brought to court after Magistrate Gabriella Vella requested criminal proceedings against him for allegedly giving false testimony during a civil case hearing on January 22, 2021.

At 11:30am, Aquilina went to the Court Registry and requested to see the file of the civil case in question. He was given the file without any issues. Copies of the seven pages relevant to the criminal case were then made. These copies were authenticated as "true copies of the original" and were stamped. This entire process took only 12 minutes! By 11:42 am, Aquilina left the Court building with the authenticated transcript in hand.

This was all Commissioner Gafà needed to do to prove the case against the business partner of Prime Minister Robert Abela: just 12 minutes of work, the PN said.

The PN noted that this is not the first case to fall apart due to a trivial omission by the Police Commissioner. The Partit Nazzjonalista also notes that no one in the country believes these are merely "mistakes." Today, it is clear to everyone that Commissioner Angelo Gafà is in his position to serve the interests of criminals who are friends of the Government, in this case, the business partner of Prime Minister Robert Abela himself.

The PN expressed its solidarity with the members of the Police Force whose reputation is being tarnished due to the behaviour of Police Commissioner Angelo Gafà.

The statement was signed by Aquilina and by Darren Carabott, shadow minister for home affairs.