MP asks party vigilance board to investigate him

Labour MP Silvio Parnis said yesterday that he had invited the MLP's vigilance board to investigate him after sections of the media implied he acted improperly in the way he had inherited a property and bought land.

Mr Parnis said in an adjournment speech in Parliament that he had done everything above board and had nothing to hide. The small property he had inherited at St Paul's Bay was bequeathed by an elderly childless couple who drew up their will in 1991 when he was not involved in politics, while the purchase of a plot was made in the normal manner under the same procedures followed by everybody else.

He said he would be filing a libel case against the PN media and should he win it, he would channel the funds to the charitable institution M'intix Wahdek.

Mr Parnis said he had also asked the Commissioner of Police to investigate a string of anonymous letters he had been receiving.

He said he was clearly the target of a campaign aimed at discrediting him, yet he was getting stronger within his constituency.

Mr Parnis said he had had to stop his programme on Super One Radio after a party decision that MPs and candidates could not have their own programme on the party media. However, anonymous letters were even being sent to his sponsors on a programme he had on Smash TV in a bid to stop his involvement.