They wanted me politically dead - John Dalli

EU Commissioner John Dalli has claimed that there had been a plan to get him out of local politics and destroy the people's confidence in him.

"They wanted to kill me and bury me six feet under, they wanted me politically dead," Mr Dalli said during an interview with Norman Hamilton on Bla Agenda.

Mr Dalli said that the political responsibility for his resignation from Minister of Foreign Affairs still had to be shouldered.

He said he had resigned because the Prime Minister had told him he could not have a minister who was being investigated and he had never been investigated in his life.

He said he did not know at the time that a report had been invented about him and had he known about it, he would have immediately said it was false.

Mr Dalli's brother Bastjan claimed in court last Thursday that while under arrest at the police depot he was offered freedom if he implicated his brother in a Mater Dei Hospital contract scandal.