RJs’ inquiry was never concluded
The beleaguered RJ70.
An inquiry ordered by Air Malta’s board of directors in 1997 into the purchase of the beleaguered RJ70s’ fleet was never concluded, The Sunday Times has learnt.
Former Judge Godwin Muscat Azzopardi, who was entrusted with the inquiry, confirmed he had never completed the investigation assigned to him in March 1997 as “something had happened in the meantime”.
The purchase of the Avro RJs left Air Malta with millions of euros in losses. The decision is often described as one of the national airline’s biggest strategic errors.
The inquiry was meant to establish the identity of management officials who had omitted a crucial guarantee in the purchase of the RJs fleet, which would have significantly diluted Air Malta’s risk.
The issue was revived a few weeks ago by Richard Cachia Caruana – a former member of Air Malta’s Board of Directors.
Judge Muscat Azzopardi confirmed, when asked, that someone from Air Malta had instructed him to stop this inquiry but said he could not remember his identity and why.
“I had received a notification to do this inquiry, but something had happened in the meantime and the inquiry was never concluded.
“So much time has passed since then and I don’t recall why the inquiry wasn’t concluded,” Judge Muscat Azzopardi said when contacted.
After former Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando levelled accusations at Mr Cachia Caruana of colluding with the 1996 Labour government, former Labour Minister Karmenu Vella had issued a declaration aimed at substantiating the MP’s claims stating that Mr Cachia Caruana had met him and told him he disagreed with the purchase of the RJs and the establishment of Azzura Air – an Air Malta subsidiary.
Denying these accusations, Mr Cachia Caruana challenged the former Labour minister responsible for Air Malta to publish the conclusions of the inquiry order by the board to establish who had omitted the crucial trip-cost guarantees.
The board was replaced
The Air Malta board, which took the decision to start the Muscat Azzopardi inquiry on March 5, 1997, was replaced just two days later when a Labour government appointed a set of new directors, with Louis Grech as the new chairman of the company and Michael Falzon – then a party official – on the company’s board.
Contacted by this newspaper, Frans Camilleri – then one of the top management officials of the company involved in the negotiations for the purchase of the Avro jets – said he had never seen the inquiry mentioned by Mr Cachia Caruana and was never summoned to appear before the board.
He insisted that he had opposed the purchase of the RJs and had made a written declaration stating his position to the then chairman Mr Grech.
The RJs’ saga
1992. Air Malta takes a strategic decision to develop a hub concept. This included a 35 per cent increase in scheduled regional routes by 1997.
1993. Air Malta purchases four Avro RJ70s from British Aerospace while discarding a proposal to buy Fokker regional jets instead. Fokker folds in 1997.
1994 to 1995. Air Malta receives four Avro RJ70s and puts them into service.
1995. Air Malta takes up 49 per cent share in Azzurra Air – a new regional airline based in Italy together with Italian investors.
May 1996. Air Malta buys three Avro RJ85s from British Aerospace and leases them to Azzura Air.
October 1996. Labour is returned to government.
December 1996. Azzurra Air starts operations.
1997. Air Malta leases RJ70s to Azzurra Air.
March 5, 1997. Air Malta’s Board of Directors orders inquiry to establish who from the management was responsible for omitting trip-cost guarantees when the four RJ70s were purchased.
March 7, 1997. Government appoints a new Air Malta board – Louis Grech appointed chairman.
2003. Lease agreement of RJs fleet with Azzurra Air terminated. Aircraft returned to Air Malta and sold.
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Angelo Vassallo
Aug 7th 2012, 09:44
Former Judge Godwin Muscat Azzopardi, who was entrusted with the inquiry, confirmed he had never completed the investigation assigned to him in March 1997 as “something had happened in the meantime”.
March 7, 1997. Government appoints a new Air Malta board – Louis Grech appointed chairman
The above is crystal clear. The enquiry was stopped when Dr. Alfred Sant was Prime Minister and Mr. Louis Grech was Chairman of Air Malta.
Can the former Prime Minister and the former Air Malta Chairman provide us with a plausible reason/s as to why the enquiring Judge was haphazardly stopped from concluding his work?
P. Ciantar
Aug 6th 2012, 07:36
this is a bit confusing
X Borg
Aug 5th 2012, 20:57
Amazing how common amnesia is with Maltese high profile people.
Justin Spiteri
Aug 5th 2012, 19:49
Judge Muscat Azzopardi confirmed, when asked, that someone from Air Malta had instructed him to stop this inquiry but said he could not remember his identity and why. - Pure Omerta ...
Joe Vella
Aug 5th 2012, 19:44
I think the Judge knows who gave him those instructions. I also knows that it is not ethical for any Judge to name anyone in the Media.
Anthony Paris
Aug 5th 2012, 20:35
Then the learned gentlemen should have said so, instead of giving a lame excuse, or at worst telling a lie.
H. Galea (NRK)
Aug 5th 2012, 19:04
I would want to believe that a judge would refuse to execute instructions received unless they come from higher authority. Should that be the case, then the circle becomes significantly restricted. Is the poor judge being sacrificed to shelter higher authority ?????? The real truth MUST come out. SHAME !
Robert Pace Bonello
Aug 5th 2012, 18:09
Somebody from Air Malta instructs the judge to stop the enquiry and he cannot remember who. Incredible and utterly unbelievable. How is it possible for this learned person to forget something so unique?
K. Vella II
Aug 5th 2012, 17:26
Someone's not fit for purpose.
S. Vella
Aug 5th 2012, 17:09
To me it seems that both parties did not want the inquiry to proceed further. Otherwise they would have used it against each other like they always do.
Funny how commentators blame the opposite party and never stop to think that maybe just maybe, both had something to gain by ignoring the issue.
Mark A. Sammut
Aug 5th 2012, 17:01
Now it is up to the media to investigate.
They should ask all the persons involved, and get to the truth.
ANTHONY PAVIA
Aug 5th 2012, 18:47
Frans Camilleri has already provided a tremendous amount of factual detail. All one need use further is his brain power.
Frank Massa
Aug 5th 2012, 16:59
For goodness sake Godwin Muscat Azzopardi is just being descreet when he says that he does not remember. The main thing is that now we know that that inquiry was cancelled. NOW whoever cancelled the inquiry must come out and say so and why. Full Stop
Jimmy Magro
Aug 5th 2012, 16:55
The facts:
1. the two biggest mistakes during the lifetime of AirMalta were the purchase of the RJ's and the setting up of the AzzuraAir.
2. both these mistakes were made by Board of Directors (BoD) appointed by the PN Governments.
3. under the Companies Act, it is the BoD that is responsible for the management of the company.
4. there is no ned for an Inquiry as the culprit for these heavy losses is no one else than the BoD.
5. Air Malta has the minutes of the Board Meetings, and it is these that should be published. This is the company's history and will give us all the answers.
6. even if there was political interference, finally it is the BoD that remain legally and morally responsible.
7. if any director did not agre with any political directives, they should have resigned. These are the principles that make a gentleman a gentleman.
8. any servant that serves as a yesperson, is only good for dumping at Maghtab.
Ronnie Callus
Aug 5th 2012, 18:08
@ Jimmy Magro:
Nisperaw li l-Minutes fil-Files jinstabu !! ghax forsi jista jkun li diga inharqu bhalma darba kien gara fi zmien il-Ministru Carmelo Caruana fis-sittinijiet jew bidu tas-sebejnijiet fil-5 distrett.
E. Azzopardi
Aug 5th 2012, 16:25
It is unacceptable coming from a Judge that he does not remember vital information from such an inquiry., irrespective how much time has passed.
Being a learned gentleman I would have thought that he would have made notes of everything, especially that information which is important and crucial. The name of the person who told him to stop the inquiry, the reason and why it was stopped were MOST crucial. Why do we hold an inquiry and then vital minutes of the meetings are not kept? These inquiries cost a lot of taxpayers money.
Incomprehensible and unbelievable.
Sarah Grech (Zebbug)
Aug 5th 2012, 16:16
Il-bambin biss jaf xi hmieg u korruzzjoni ser jiskopri aktar il-Labour is-sena d-diehla meta jkun fil-gvern...
victor caruana
Aug 5th 2012, 16:08
A new PL government should get to the bottom of this issue and open wide the doors at Corradino if need be.
Jimmy Magro
Aug 5th 2012, 18:47
A new PL government should look forward to creat the best environment for the public sector to invest in Malta, ceretae wealth and jobs, and see to it that it is distributed fairly.
There is no time to waste on past adventures as nobody will be giving any evidence to open the doors to Corradino. In Malta and other countries there is the omerta and it is impossible to send anyone to prison in such a closed, infiltrated and networked society.
A government is there to ensure prsperty for the many and not for the few. Dealing with the past will not create any wealth, rather we will be spending money down the drain.
Let us look forward to a modern country where we live under the same sun; bringing all the forces together to create wealth, make Malta unique, and ensue that all valid persons participate in these challenges.
We have to build a coalition of all colours of the rainbow as we are too small to use only 50% of the population as what has happened during the last 25 years.
ANTHONY PAVIA
Aug 6th 2012, 08:00
Jimmy, I am sure you mean the private sector, don't you?
Edward Camilleri
Aug 5th 2012, 15:03
what a sorry state of affairs. even the Judge does not remember who told him to stop the enquiry! no wonder our courts are in such a sorry state.
Joe Vella
Aug 5th 2012, 15:03
m. borg (slm)
Today, 13:00
"MR Joe Vella you are inventing a lie, if it was Saint who stopped the investigation you think that the PN would have not mentioned this before.
Being stupid is one thing but acting stupid is totally unacceptable."
m. borg, I didn't event any thing. I believe that no body knew that the Inquiry was ever cancelled. Why would RCC ask Karmenu Vella to make public the findings of the INquiry?
m. borg (slm)
Aug 5th 2012, 17:13
"Why would RCC ask Karmenu Vella to make public the findings of the INquiry?"
Exactly why would he (RCC) ?
That is why I wrote : Being stupid (of the facts) is one thing but acting stupid is totally unacceptable."
Sorry for the repeat
j brincat
Aug 5th 2012, 13:46
Joe Vella
"From the above article one wonders why Karmenu Vella never responded to RCC request to have the findings of the Inquiry be made public"
You are, as usual, presuming that it is so.
Let's say, just for argument's sake, that it is as you say. What kept the chairmen with successive boards of directors (paid out of taxpayers' money) which were hand chosen by the PN after 1998 to continue with the investigation?
What's say thou, now Watson?
NB: You have also to read what Mr Camilleri (ex-Air Malta executive had to say on TOM about the purchase of the RJs so as to complete the whole picture!
(jb)
Joe Vella
Aug 5th 2012, 14:46
@ jb Brincat;
"Let's say, just for argument's sake, that it is as you say. What kept the chairmen with successive boards of directors (paid out of taxpayers' money) which were hand chosen by the PN after 1998 to continue with the investigation?"
Why ask successive Boards of Directors? Why not ask Louis Grech, PL, MEP who was the Chairman of the Board of Directors the Inquiry was Cancelled:
Why Not ask Michael Falzon, PL, MP, who was on the Board of Directors when the Inquiry was Cancelled?
Why not ask Karmenu Vella,whom I assume was the MInister responsible for Air Malta,when the Inquiry was Cancelled?
Why not ask Alfred Sant himself, whom ultimately was responsible of appointing the Board of Directors that cancelled the INquiry>
R. Cilia
Aug 5th 2012, 15:13
Joe Vella please quote the article where it says that the new board cancelled the inquiry!
J. Scicluna
Aug 5th 2012, 13:25
Some people seem to be implying that Labour put a stop on the inquiry and, 25years down the line, the PN never made use of this scandal?!?!
Well, it can only mean that the OPPOSITE happened!
Joe Vella
Aug 5th 2012, 14:49
J. Scicluna, no body is implying anything. The facts are quite clear based on the above article. The fact is that the newly appointed Boar of Directors, appointed by none other then Alfred Sant, cancelled the Inquiry only 2 days after it was appointed.
Anthony Agius
Aug 5th 2012, 13:21
Judge Muscat Azzopardi cannot remember who and why? Must have been sombody important if Judge took heed. Had I been in a law court and answered like that, I would most probably have been held in contempt of court and accused of giving false witness! I invite the Honory Judge to substantiate his claims by taking a solemn oath. Even though I still will not believe him, if something surfaces one day, he might just be held accountable.
R. Cilia
Aug 5th 2012, 13:19
The judge should be put under hypnosis and that will help him remember who stopped the inquiry lol.
Joe Vella
Aug 5th 2012, 14:55
R. Cilia; who ever it was from Air Malta that stopped the INquiry is not so important. Who ever it was could not have done so without the blessing and instruction from the newly appointed Board of Director. We all know that the Board of Directors was appointed by the Alfred Sant Government, and the Chairman of the Board wan none other then |LOuis Grech, PL, MEP and that Micheal Falzon, PL, MP sat on the Board as well.
R. Cilia
Aug 5th 2012, 22:13
Joe Vella, if what you are saying is true, then why didn't the PN open the enquiry again, when they were in government? My guess is that both parties had a finger in the pie.
Francis Sammut
Aug 5th 2012, 13:11
What no one is saying is the fact that the then chairman of Air Malta Mr. N. J. Tabone who finalized the deal with British Aerospace for the buying of the three Avroliners RJ70 and the four RJ85 is that the said company is to give a second hand Islander aircraft to the AFM as a token gift for Malta's deciding to buy the seven aircraft. I can also remember Air Malta being advised not to buy that many aircraft all at once, but start with say two since this was basically a new aircraft, still being tested and therefore we needed to take some precautions. But all that was thrown to the wind, it seems! Now this always made me think about how deals of this sort are made behind closed doors and why. I mean what made the company of the Avroliners decide to donate (for free!) an Islander to the AFM and what other behind the scenes manoeuvres were made and held? And all this when many, in the aircraft industry (I can remember reading) were commenting that this aircraft is very unreliable and have very high cost maintenance. The question one need to ask is this: Did money change hands?
J. Scicluna
Aug 5th 2012, 14:52
PERHAPS, just perhaps, this deal also bought the UK's vote in favour of Malta joing the EU....?
BOQ! Just a "supposition" ;-P
m. borg (slm)
Aug 5th 2012, 12:50
It is amazing how important things seem to slip some people's minds.
Same like the BWSC contract a certain Mr Mizzi who stood to gain €4 million in commissions could not remeber anything connected to the contract.
Amnesia seems to be a favorite condition with people in the know how.
Mr Stephen Borg
Aug 5th 2012, 14:10
Agree with you hundred percent but I can assure you that some one will say that nevertheless the government created 20000 jobs and the usual bla bla bla, so as to make us forget all other important and pressing issues like this one where people close to the current administration got a good lump of money from the usual consultations and commissions whilst in the meantime many Maltese people have a part time job as their main source of income and cannot make ends meet. Prosit PN.
Lawrence Fenech
Aug 5th 2012, 12:16
Ofcourse nobody wants to be responsible for the waste of money and wrong decision or commissions were involved. A replica of BWSC.
Robert Agius
Aug 5th 2012, 12:09
Another case of short memory and nothing but smoke....
Proof and hard evidence is hard to come by in these day of rife corruption.
SHAME SHAME SHAME!
vella m
Aug 5th 2012, 12:06
"Judge Muscat Azzopardi confirmed, when asked, that someone from Air Malta had instructed him to stop this inquiry but said he could not remember his identity and why." LOL,noting is new in this land where no-one grows up . Have we become a worse state than Zimbabwe,Haqqkon Gieh iz-Zarbuna.
Carmel Grima
Aug 5th 2012, 12:00
Dear Judge Muscat Azzopardi.
Pull the other one, it's got bells on it !
Ing. Carmel Grima.
william cauchi
Aug 5th 2012, 11:46
What can I say!!! What can anybody say!!!
Some poor chap takes home a sack of potatoes, which were going into the skip anyway, and has the book thrown at him and looses his job.
But than an inquiry into a few million (of Lm mind you and euro) here or there. Well it gets overlooked/stopped/forgotten/sanded over. You take your pick.
Sorry Judge, but if somebody tells me to stop doing something that important to the nation, I would have first asked for a couple of signatures authorising this, to cover my back, and then obeyed higher orders. I am sure that if the Judge checks again he will find these signatures, otherwise....................................
j brincat
Aug 5th 2012, 11:45
“So much time has passed since then and I don’t recall why the inquiry wasn’t concluded,” Judge Muscat Azzopardi said when contacted"
What the most important question.is: "WHEN was he told or ordered to stop the investigation?
Was it in 1998 or afterwards?
It must be understood that the fiasco of the RJs and Azzura Air cost Air Malta €164 million (€164,000,000) -0 not a peanut AND todate no one has shouldered any responsibility!
After 1998 we still had various boards of directors and chairmen chosen by the PN governments!
But it is all quiet 'on the Western Front' as regards this very grave matter!
(jb)
Joe Vella
Aug 5th 2012, 11:41
From the above article one wonders why Karmenu Vella never responded to RCC request to have the findings of the Inquiry be made public. The Alfred Sant appointed Board of Directors have cancelled the said Inquiry ordered by the previous PN appointed Board of Directors.
One wonders what inspired between the time that Alfred Sant was Elected in September 1996 and 1997. Could there have been POLITICAL INTERFERENCE by the Alfred Sant Government? This give credit to What RCC is implying, For RCC to ask that the findings of the inquiry to be make public, he is not even aware that it was stopped by the new Board. What is Karmenu Vella hiding?
Joseph Cauchi Senior
Aug 5th 2012, 11:28
“The board was replaced.
The Air Malta board, which took the decision to start the Muscat Azzopardi inquiry on March 5, 1997, was replaced just two days later when a Labour government appointed a set of new directors, with Louis Grech as the new chairman of the company and Michael Falzon – then a party official – on the company’s board”.
As regards to the above quote, does it mean to say that the inquiry stopped after the set-up of this new board?
If in the affirmative, then this inquiry was stopped during Alfred Sant’s administration!
Can the Minister responsible at that time kindly clear up this matter, please?
JC.
C. Bartoli
Aug 6th 2012, 11:37
tiftakruh lil alfred sant jghid inbazwru ftit l hemm u inbazwru ftit l hawn
Joseph Cauchi Senior
Aug 5th 2012, 11:15
Reading this article, one tends to conclude that all this matter of the RJ-70s which the MLP had exploited to its limits could easily blow in its face when the crucial decisions about this inquiry were taken between Alfred Sant’s government of 1996-98!
Wasn’t Karmenu Vella the then Minister at that time; then why doesn’t he come out and clarify the air surrounding that period?
Is Joseph Muscat shielding Karmenu Vella and why?
JC.
Eddy Privitera
Aug 5th 2012, 12:04
Joseph Cauchi: All you are doing is hypothecating ! Surely, if any PL MP or official was involved in any wrongdoing, GonziPN would have revealed it a long time ago ! So that crucial decuision can only have been taken by a PN person !!!!
m. borg (slm)
Aug 5th 2012, 12:56
Mr Cauchi your conclusion always are baseless and wrong.
Like Mr Privitera explained if it was a labour minister the fact would have surely been used as electoral propaganda.
Ask yourself why RCC asked for the investigation report to be made public when it was never concluded and stopped by a high official.
RCC is not stupid and neither are we MR Cachia Caruana.
thomas dimech
Aug 5th 2012, 13:41
lets stop asking if it was a PN or MLP board appointed. lets just ask the judge in question to try harder and remember who told him to stop the inquiry. i`m sure if a citizen was testifying in front of this judge and the citizen "forgot" something really important the judge would have strongly asked him to remember.
Michael Sciortino
Aug 5th 2012, 11:05
I repeat what I had asked earlier. Why did the Air Malta Board not do anything about the omission of the trip cost guarantee between 1994 and March 1997 when the inquiry was ordered? Did the Board need three years to realise that the trip cost guarantee had been omitted from the contract?
Perhaps the Times could dig deeper into this mess. This episode calls for some incisive investigative journalism.
Ronnie Callus
Aug 5th 2012, 10:58
Can one believes the statement given by Judge Muscat Azzopardi that he remembers that there was some one from AirMalta who instructed him to stop the inquiry procedures and does not remember whom he was ?? Possibly being the inquiry Judge didn't took a note?? What credibility is this if he does not ?? Does he remember whether he was paid for his work or not ?? For a lot the Judge statement does not make any sense.
David Galea
Aug 5th 2012, 10:12
No wonder no one wants to disclosed the problem about air malta. It seems that not only politicians from both sides are to blame for the blonder but judges are in the heart of the case/s as well.
ONLY IN MALTA.
Dear honest Maltese citizen make sure that you pay your taxes in order that the big fat fish enjoy an excellent life.....:( :( :(
Vincent Cassar
Aug 5th 2012, 10:42
Dear Mr Galea, why do you say that "politicians from both sides"? It was the PL admin who started the inquiry and the PN post-1998 who stopped it. Doe that say something to you?. Re big fat fish and all the rest...stop moaning and do something better with your vote this election. Otherwise...chi tace...consente!
m. borg (slm)
Aug 5th 2012, 12:58
Mr Galea some people argue as we say in maltese, "Mit-toqba ta' ........... ghajnhom"
Patrick Zammit
Aug 5th 2012, 10:06
So, as I understand it, under Sant's administration, an inquiry is ordered but stopped when PN is returned to power. Looks like someone had a lot to hide.
How convenient.
The judge not remembering reminds me of another person who also conveniently forgot a number of things in the BWSC scandal.
H. Galea (NRK)
Aug 5th 2012, 10:59
Unfortunately it happens to be an inescapable fact that as we grow older 'dementia' starts to set in. We are all human and hence no one seems to be exempt from such wear and tear. The proper and serious use of 'paperwork' may never be over estimated ... perhaps ..... after all, some papers do occasionally get lost or misplaced !
Joe Vella
Aug 5th 2012, 11:09
Patrick Zammit, you do not have all your facts together.
1) The inquiry was ordered under Sant's Administration, but by the Board that was in place when Sant took over.
2) Inquiry was Stopped when the New Board appointed by Alfred Sant
From the above one can say that something had taken place between the time that Alfred Sant was Elected in September 1996 and 1997. Could have been POLITICAL INTERFERENCE by the Alfred Sant Government? This give credit to What RCC is implying, For RCC to ask that the findings of the inquiry to be make public, he is not even aware that it was stopped by the new Board. What is Karmenu Vella hiding?
Joe Fenech
Aug 5th 2012, 09:41
Stinking case. I'm sure the usual people pocketed a lot of cash from this venture. INVESTIGATE NOW!
Charles J. Buttigieg
Aug 5th 2012, 09:35
The decision to stop the inquiry was taken by the Directors after the termination of Sant's administration. Very conveniently that important fact wasn't mentioned.
Irene Forster
Aug 5th 2012, 11:10
Sorry but does not compute, when does a judge not take notes???
Joseph Cauchi Senior
Aug 5th 2012, 11:18
Where does it say in the article that the decision was taken after Sant's termination?
JC.
Joe Vella
Aug 5th 2012, 11:38
Charles read the article again and get your facts straight. It was the PN appointed Board that ordered the Inquiry, only to be terminated by the Board appointed by the SAnt Government.
m. borg (slm)
Aug 5th 2012, 13:00
Mr Joe Vella you are inventing a lie, if it was Sant who stopped the investigation you think that the PN would have not mentioned this before.
Being stupid is one thing but acting stupid is totally unacceptable.
Charles J. Buttigieg
Aug 5th 2012, 23:16
@ Joe Vella.From t he article. ' March 5, 1997. Air Malta’s Board of Directors orders inquiry to establish who from the management was responsible for omitting trip-cost guarantees when the four RJ70s were purchased.'
henry caruana
Aug 5th 2012, 09:28
A judge was instructed / ordered by an AIR MALTA employee on taxpayers roll to stop
the enquiry ???? the judge never asked for a signed authoritisation to the instruction ???
Where is the person who was chairing Air MALTA that day ??
Perhaps away enjoying proceeds from RJ's order ???
Charles Micallef
Aug 5th 2012, 09:28
Judge Muscat Azzopardi confirmed, when asked, that someone from Air Malta had instructed him to stop this inquiry but said he could not remember his identity and why.... this must be a joke......a Judge stops, an enquiry because someone who he does not remember who, asked him to do so, does this Judge do not keep records on such important issues....?
H. Galea (NRK)
Aug 5th 2012, 09:50
Hope that it was not the janitor who imparted such a petty instruction !
john muscat
Aug 5th 2012, 11:21
What kind of judge one would be to heed "someone" from Air Malta and would not continue the inquiry?That "someone" could be easily remembered even by an ordinary man. Some people remember lesser items done 30 years or more ago!
Edward Curmi
Aug 5th 2012, 09:22
Dik trasparenza tal PL!!
john muscat
Aug 5th 2012, 11:25
I think you made a mistake that should have been PN and not PL, as the inquiry was ordered to stop under a PN administration,lol, Sur Curmi.
Joe Vella
Aug 5th 2012, 11:55
JOhn Muscst, The Inquiry was stopped by the Alfred Sant appointed Board of Directors, and the Inquiry was stopped under Alfred Sant Administration.
John Muscat, I think we are all laughing back at you, including is- Sur Curmi.
Edward Curmi
Aug 5th 2012, 12:55
@john muscat...are you sure you know the last time PL were in office???
R. Cilia
Aug 5th 2012, 13:16
Joe Vella, the inquiry was stopped by someone from AirMalta and the judge does not remember who he was, remember? Your comment doesn't hold water.
Please choose the reason of your report below: