(Adds PN reaction)

Labour leader Joseph Muscat has asked the Police Commissioner to investigate comments which the PL said were made by two ministers during a meeting of the PN parliamentary group on January 31.

The party said that Dr Muscat had a meeting with Police Commissioner John Rizzo yesterday during which the Labour leader gave details about the PN group meeting.

The PL said that a particular minister had said that EU funding had become available for the proposed extension of the museum of St John’s Co-Cathedral “because there was someone who knew how to play the game”.

Another minister during the same meeting spoke of “undue pressure” on public officers.

The Labour Party did not disclose the names of the ministers.

Dr Muscat was accompanied by party president Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi.

The PN in a reaction said the allegations about the parliamentary group meeting had already been denied, and it was a shame that Dr Muscat was trying to involve the Police Commissioner in partisan politics.

The PN said it viewed Dr Muscat's statement as an attempt to deviate public attention after he was proved wrong when he said that Malta was a net contributor to the EU, and after it was also shown that Malta would be wrong to veto EU decisions because of the issue of illegal migrants, as Dr Muscat had suggested.