Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s personal lawyer is redacting the 1,500-page Egrant inquiry report himself, despite the Attorney General, the magistrate who wrote it, police investigators and several legal minds all being against its release.
Sources told The Sunday Times of Malta that in recent weeks Dr Muscat had called on several legal experts to weigh in on his plan to release the full magisterial inquiry into allegations that his wife owned the once-secret offshore company Egrant.
The majority of those consulted were “overwhelmingly against” releasing it, giving a number of reasons it could compromise the government’s position and set a precedent that would be uncomfortable for the judiciary.
“The experts said that the publication of the report could prejudice third parties who are extraneous to the Egrant case. It could jeopardise ongoing investigations, including one into very serious matters involving large sums of money and foreign jurisdictions,” said a source privy to some of details of the inquiry
“Even publishing a redacted version, while this is the Prime Minister’s intended course, is not straightforward,” the source added.
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