Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Tuesday that he has “no doubt” he will be criminally charged following the conclusion of the magisterial inquiry into the Vitals hospitals deal.
“I have no doubt it will happen. We are prepared for it, but we’re coming out fighting,” he said at a press conference.
He said that if justice exists, he will be a free man. “Just as the Egrant inquiry exonerated me completely, the same will happen here. I know what I did and didn’t do,” Muscat said.
He said that the inquiry was politically motivated, and said that the institutions are working against Labourites.
He said that it is of concern that the inquiry report was concluded and handed over while nominations for the European Parliament and local council elections were being received.
On Tuesday, a court hearing a case submitted by former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to take the inquiry magistrate off the case, heard that the Vitals inquiry had been concluded on Thursday 24 April and was sent to the Attorney General’s office on 25 April.
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