Gatt makes new arguments claiming 'frame up'
Three Labour MPs knew about the oil scandal story
Gatt makes new arguments claiming 'frame up'. Video: Paul Spiteri Lucas
Infrastructure Minister Austin Gatt this afternoon announced he had prepared a technical report that he intends filing with the police in connection with an email leaked this week as part of the unfolding oil scandal story and which, he said, is likely part of a frame up in his respect by the Labour Party.
He also said he had come across information that shows that at least a Labour MP and two candidates are somehow connected with this matter.
He pointed out that Labour candidate David Farrugia Sacco was the defence lawyer for the Farrugia brothers, owners of the John’s Group, and whose court action in 2010 against George Farrugia – the businessman at the heart of the oil scandal – is likely to have uncovered the emails now doing the rounds in the press.
He also said he was informed that another Labour candidate, Manuel Mallia, also represented the Farrugia brothers against George Farrugia and was a part of the investigative team which discovered these emails. He said Dr Mallia had even represented the Farrugia Brothers at a meeting in Geneva.
Finally, he referred to Labour MP Evarist Bartolo, who, he said, had circulated the latest controversial email, which was published by Maltatoday and then replicated in The Times.
Dr Gatt pointed out that last email published was very suspicious in that computers could only be set in Maltese from 2006 onwards, yet this email, purportedly from 2004, had a date in Maltese.
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VINCENT WILLIAMS
Feb 17th, 20:35
The ex-PN Minister J. Dalli knows very well what a 'frame up' really is more than Minsiter A. Gatt.
Even the workers of Sea Malta, Air Malta, Selmun Palace Hotel and Malta Drydocks beside other workers. Know what a 'frame up' is under GonziPN. Not to mention those who have precarious jobs, pensioners with low pension, thousands in poverty. All can explain what a real 'frame up' is.
Mr Stephen Borg
Feb 17th, 13:01
This story teller isn't that convincing I must reckon. This story is an orchestrated plan by Austin Gatt to try to divert the heat onto the Labour party, but A.G or Aust or minister the people want answers from your side and not from the Labour party because on those emails there is reference to you and you only. People are not so naive.
Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 17th, 17:57
If you stop pretending not to see what is obviously there for everybody to see, then you would see that Austin Gatt has already made it clear that, whoever "AG" or "Aust" were meant to hide, he never held any meetings with oil procurement agencies during which tenders were discussed. Some people are not naive but they certainly know how to close their eyes tight so as to pretend not to see.
Mr Stephen Borg
Feb 17th, 19:14
Good for you if you believe Aust or A.G but I can assure you that there are many people asking what is in Aust's Swiss bank account. Surely we cannot stop all investigations because Aust says that he never discussed oil procurment in these meetings.
Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 17th, 20:49
@StephenBorg
I do not "believe Aust or A.G." because no one knows who they are, what they said or did - neither do you. Your assurances are valueless in my eyes so you may just as well keep your opinion to yourself. I know that Dr Gatt did not ask the Police to stop any investigation. He insisted on one and cooperated with the police.
Please do pause to think before rushing to type.
M. Baron
Feb 17th, 10:57
During the past 5 years, around 7,000,000,000 (yes 9 zeros) worth of oil was purchased.
I am dying to know what the commission percentage was...for
@5 % = 350,000,000
@10% = 700,000,000
@15% = 1,050,000,000
The mind boggles!
Eve Axiaq
Feb 17th, 10:57
Ghaliex Austin qed jghati importanza ta email wahda u li nstabet fuq facebook? Dik l-email ma nafux min ghamilha. Jidher li hemm min irid johloq konfuzjoni biex jghati l-impressjoni li l-emails foloz.
Maria Borg
Feb 17th, 10:27
Can the people be treated as intelligent people and not as idiots.... The people want to know what happened to all those commissions and not to listen to non sense Press Conferences. Let us live please Dr. Gatt .. you had it good for a long time - now it is the people's chance to make it happen on the 9th March !
Michael Magri
Feb 17th, 10:08
"..Labour MP Evarist Bartolo and candidates Manuel Mallia and David Farrugia Sacco will be filing a complaint to the police against Infrastructure Minister Austin Gatt, for his claim of a frame up by the Labour Party this afternoon.."
Any more comments are SuperfluouS...
j brincat
Feb 17th, 10:45
AND why are they so superfluous according to your wisdom?
jb
Michael Magri
Feb 17th, 17:56
JB.. I think you missed my point completely.. What i meant was, lets see what Dr Gatt is going to come up with under oath when replying in court.
j brincat
Feb 17th, 10:07
Who remembers 'Who framed Roger Rabbit'?
jb
Michael Magri
Feb 17th, 09:39
Guys tell me this now... If you have ANY Account in ANY Bank, (especialy Swiss Bank), with ANY Amount, (say in millions) do you EVER EVER manage to FORGET(.!!) that you have SUCH an account.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY..........!!!!!!!!
Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 17th, 09:21
For someone accused of manning "PANIC STATIONS", one must admit that Austin Gatt is doing a jolly good thorough job of sweeping the floor clean using his bedraggled enemies as a brooms.
Mr Stephen Borg
Feb 17th, 13:06
Yeah yeah so you are saying that through these two press conferences AG or Aust whatever they called him in those emails managed to thrash Labour. Come on get real, no one except maybe and I repeat maybe you are believing Aust's version of events.
Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 17th, 18:03
@Stephen Borg
Your "get real" your "so you are saying", your "no one except may be" and "may be you are believing" do not prove anything except that you are unsure about everything and you would better shut up until you ascertain facts.
Joseph Aquilina
Feb 17th, 09:06
@Mr Alistaire Gill
I am not happy with corruption; like everyone one else I want justice to be made and the truth comes out. However I do not trust lejber with anything related to the "truth" because lejber has a history of hiding and twisting the truth the moment this is not in their favor, or worse!!
rodney bone
Feb 17th, 07:23
We want to hear the truth before the election and not a few days, weeks or months after. This has been draging for too long and people are sick of being taken for a ride. In the absence of the whole truth before the election, the safest option is simply not to vote PN again.
patrick cutajar
Feb 17th, 07:02
I watched the whole press conference and just loved the moment Saviour Balzan entered the room. The expression on Gatt and PBO's were incredibly & extremely funny, they didn't expect it and clearly showed it. After all the pompous excuses and paranoid theories of frame ups, Balzan statement flushed them away in a minute! Now lets wait for a new set of fanatical excuses from AUST & GONZIPN.
Eve Axiaq
Feb 17th, 10:59
Vera. Baqghu ccassati!
M Borg
Feb 17th, 11:16
True if you listend well to what he said he made it a point to " emphasise " that he never once hinted or said that Gatt was corrupt..
He just said that he printed the emails that he was given.
Lawrence Fenech
Feb 17th, 06:06
Jekk AustAG delettant tal frame ups, imur id-dar jaqbad il frames kollha li ghandu mal hajt u jghollihom piet u nofs.
Lawrence Fenech
Feb 17th, 05:51
Il klikka tal-GonziPN qabdu triq wahda ta' gibdeb, insulti, insinwazzjonijiet u korruzzjoni .Vera din il kampanja l'itwal wahda u il GonziPN irnexxilhom ihamguha kemm jifilhu. Tiddejaq tismahhhom u l'anqas tifel ta' sentejn ma jemmen dak li qed jghidu'. Gatt issa irid jghaljen lil poplu bil problemi tieghu u il kbir ghadu gej.
M Saliba
Feb 17th, 04:49
Dr Gatt is insisting on TV that he never spoke about oil procurement with Mr Farrugia. The PM believes in Dr Gatt and his statements. Aren't these statements influencing the witnesses?
Now a press conference chasing the whistle blower. Will this intimidate the whistle blower from publishing further e-mails?
Who is the investigator, the Police or the Cabinet? Is there any conflict of interest?
Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 17th, 18:17
If Nationalists are influenced by Gonzi and Gatt, it would be just as true that Labourites would be influenced by Muscat and Abela. Witnesses in court (unless court-appointed experts) are directed to stick to facts and not to spout opinions however formed. That is why kangaroo courts and trials by the press are no substitute for due process in courts of law.
K CASSAR
Feb 17th, 01:53
The more Dr.Gatt talks, the less convincing he becomes.Maybe he should just be quiet and let justice do its course or he might say something he might regret in his frenzy to prove himself innocent. Many if us infact don't believe he is. Having said that, it is the PN way of politics to get away with anything and he has plenty of times. As one says in Maltese " xi darba tmiss il Papa"!!!!
Joseph John Zammit
Feb 17th, 01:32
Eee mela issa u kien Aust? Frame up? Kemm hsibtna idioti? Malajr qallek Saviour Balzan, no connection to politaical parties what so ever....Austin your credibility is 0...
Mario Mamo
Feb 17th, 00:27
Behold fellow countrymen. Sherlock AG, Aust, Minister Holmes!! He is playing detective NOW. He should have done it when the commissions started rolling in. It would have saved us hundreds of € on taxes and electricity bills. Mr. Arrogance had declared that he knew all that went on in his Ministry. There are the sin of commission and that of ommission. Let those of good faith judge.
G. Ellul
Feb 16th, 23:14
Data....
anthony bartolo
Feb 16th, 23:08
Tghid Swoboda jghidilna biex nivvotaw PL bhal ma ghamel Scultz meta qal biex jivvotaw lil Joseph bhala leader tal-PL?
Bernard Bonnici
Feb 16th, 23:00
As far as I know if I have a computer with the Maltese Language installed and today I print an e-mail which dates back to 2004, the date is automatically changed and printed inMaltese...but I stand to be corrected. I am not an IT guru.
George Cassar
Feb 16th, 22:45
To all Aust apologists:
Quote - "Zmien il-buzullotti spicca" - unquote
"L-ebda computer..." li kien jahdem bil-Windows forsi. U dawk li jahdmu bil-Linux? Hallina sur Ministru tal-IT
Gary Jameson
Feb 16th, 22:40
The Windows XP operating system supported the Maltese language as a regional option when Service Pack 2 was released in August 2004. As these e-mails appeared to have been produced using Outlook, it would be very easy to change the date format by switching between Maltese and UK English as a regional option using the Control Panel within Windows. He should have said 2004 onwards.
M. Baron
Feb 16th, 22:23
from wikipedia...
A frame-up (frameup) or setup is an American term referring to the act of framing someone, that is, providing false evidence or false testimony in order to falsely prove someone guilty of a crime.[1]
...So there was a crime!! What was it?
m borg
Feb 16th, 22:14
Panic Station AG
Joe Bonanno
Feb 16th, 22:05
Did Austin Gatt produce any evidence to back up his wild conspiracy theories? To date all I've heard are his opinions, speculations, conjecture, insinuations, etc., etc. but no substantiation. Deflection is a tried and true political ruse. But to expect anyone with grey matter between their ears to accept all of AG's accusations without question is a lot to ask.
M. Baron
Feb 16th, 22:04
"What's in a date (sic),? said Juliet .... After the merry go round with the initials, now we have the hullabaloo on the date on one e-mail. Beyond the smoke and the mirrors there stands the fact that hundreds of millions of EUROS in commission were paid to someone for only five years worth of Oil. That cannot be erased from the mind of the Taxpayer, armed with his/her vote !!!
Peppi Borg
Feb 16th, 22:03
Aust should have learnt by now to stop treating people like idiots. The more press conferences he set the more credibility he will lose. It's the largest scandal ever which shocked the Maltese whatever their political alliance is. And it happened under AG's responsibility! But yet all we see is the minister who hides behind other persons whom he put on stage for convenience.
Peppi Borg
Feb 16th, 21:59
All we heard from AG was statements to try to hise the real content of such e mails. He mentioned nothing about the commissions received. I am interested to hear nothing but the truth. But what should I expect from a cornered person?
DC Agius
Feb 16th, 21:52
Hallina mill-buzullotti Aust tridx! Dak li huwa tieghek tippruvax twaddbu fuq haddiehor.
A. Mizzi
Feb 16th, 21:46
Frame up? B'din ir-rata mug shots sejjer ikollna u mhux ucuh fil frames!
John Zammit
Feb 16th, 21:43
If he is innocent as he says he is why trying to deviate their attention An innocent person waits for the verdict to come clean. Was Franco Debono right in what he said about you. Once in a hole stop digging
susan matrenza
Feb 16th, 21:11
Hahaha so Dr.Gatt is basing his defence on the regional settgings! WoW What a gaffe!
George Cutajar
Feb 16th, 21:04
The only reason why many below are attacking Austin and coming up with theories is simply because it is Austin Gatt - the man who Labour simply love to hate. I never doubted Austin's integrity and I think one should let justice take it's course and the whole truth will be out for all to see.
M Grima
Feb 16th, 22:39
Labour does not hate him but they despise him, if you know the difference.
G. Ellul
Feb 16th, 23:13
One thing is clear: we have the ata Protection Act ghal-lasta.....!
Mario Mamo
Feb 17th, 00:09
' Austin Gatt - the man who Labour simply love to hate '. Are you sure that ONLY Labour likes to hate him. I can assure you that you are wrong. Mince your words before you spit them out or have you returned from Mars yesterday?
effie stafrace
Feb 17th, 00:51
definition of integrity please.
Alex Cutajar
Feb 17th, 02:02
L-aktar ministru arroganti fl-istorja tal pajjiz!
Igelna nisthu li ghandna dan it-tip ta ministri Malta!
Alex- www.alexcutajar.com
Noel Cuschieri
Feb 17th, 04:01
I DO NOT think that Aust was ever involved in this "commissions" scandal. It would have been too risky for a minister to get involved in earning commissions from suppliers. However, from what I have seen thus far, I DO think that his behaviour is making him arrogant and dishonest! Even his non verbal behaviour on TV tells us that this person thinks that people can be so naive and gullible!!
carmel vella
Feb 17th, 07:08
Then you should be blindfolded!
David Triganza
Feb 16th, 20:47
Everybody knows that this is just a deviation from AG. He puts more and more work on the Police so that they cannot concentrate on the Oil Scandal itself. I think that the Police are wise enough to concentrate where it really matters. What about the actual commissions? WHO is involved in all this? It's our money!
Denis Pace
Feb 16th, 21:07
Everyone knows WHO is capable of frame-ups!
Why has this surfaced now......it dates back to 2004!!!!
Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 17th, 08:59
"Everyone knows WHO is capable of frame-ups!" (Denis Pace)
Those who were not only "capable of frame ups" but actually carried them out on Pietru Pawl Busuttil and myself were indubitably the MLP police in furtherance of despicable criminal machinations by the Malta Labour Party. Do you know what you are scribbling and do you think that we all have lost our memory?
Mario Scicluna
Feb 18th, 08:15
@Francis Saliba M.D.
The time-warped Dottore is at it again! So you haven't lost your memory have you? Ok, so try to grasp the fact that the alleged weapon 'mysteriously' went missing from the Courts's vaults. How come? Interesting fact, no break-in was reported, so key/keys were used. All this under a PN administration. Nice! Remember Terinu Dott? Ettore Bono remember?
Mario Scicluna
Feb 18th, 09:05
@Francis Saliba M.D.
The time-warped Dottore is at it again! So you haven't lost your memory have you? Ok, so try to grasp the fact that the alleged weapon 'mysteriously' went missing from the Courts's vaults. How come? Interesting fact, no break-in was reported, so key/keys were used. All this under a PN administration. Nice! Remember Terinu Dott? Ettore Bono remember?
James Grech
Feb 16th, 20:45
This charade has been stretched so much that only fools can believe what A.G. says. Ppl don't need to be reminded that he survived a vote of no confidence by the speaker's intervention. What is more appalling is the defense that A.G. is given by the Gonzi himself. How a PM of a supposedly democratic EU country risks his credibility to support such a blunder-prone minister is mind-boggling!!
James Grech
Feb 16th, 20:39
The issue of the emails has been amply clarified by the ToM's journalist on the same day that Gatt held the conference. The only reason he persists in burdening the police with non-issues is just to continue to deviate the attention FROM the main issue which is the oil scandal. Gatt's statements are those of someone who has nothing to say, and thus resort to mud-slinging. What a farce!!
Ethelbert Schembri
Feb 16th, 20:27
The more A.G tries to trow the blame on others the more he shows to in what a state of panic he and his party are .. He's coming out with all sort of stupid ideas and the more he tries the more people are realising his tactics.
Please STOP treating us all like idiots, we're not .. If you keep on doing so, you will be forcing us to believe that you are one.. Thanks
X Borg
Feb 16th, 20:23
Come on AG. You had the infinite resources of MITTS/MITA and this is all that they came up with.
Anyone knows that if you print an old email on a PC set with Maltese language you always get the date in Maltese - have your boffins try it out.
This 'Frame up' is starting to become a 'Frame up'.
A Abela
Feb 16th, 20:49
PT1 in case they want to try it out here are the instructions Go to Control Panel, Region and Language, Formats tab, change to Maltese and press apply. No go to our outlook and try to print an email. Your date will be in Maltese format. Any old email that originally used the english date format but is printed in a computer with Maltese date format date will automatically change to Maltese.
A Abela
Feb 16th, 20:51
PT2 Besides I was using Maltese date format way back in 2001. Used to download a file from MITTS. Hallina trid
M Borg
Feb 16th, 22:34
@ A Abela
Can you explain if you change over to the Maltese language will only the date change to Maltese format, or will the whold email be translated into Maltese ?
Mario Bonnici
Feb 16th, 20:23
Interessanti kif Dr Austin Gatt qed ibbidel il-verzjoni tieghu. Tlett verzjonijiet f'temp ta' gimgha. L-ewwel qal li AG u Aust mhux bilfors jirreferu ghalih, imbghad li jirreferu ghalih izda ma ddiskutiex iz-zejt u llum hareg bit-teorija ta' frame up.
DUNCAN FABRI
Feb 16th, 20:20
Xi hsibtna Aust? Ma nafux nuzghu PC? Possibli ma tafx li meta timporta email anke dawk antiki jinbidel il-format tal-headings skond kif ikun issetjat il-pc ta dak li jkun?!
Joe Pace Asciak
Feb 16th, 20:07
Lincagg morali fl-ahjar tradizzjoni tal-passat li jghaqqadna mal-prezent tal-mlp.
John B. Borg
Feb 16th, 20:59
Did you ever hear the wise words "Silence is golden" I think that they are very appropriate in this case
Thomas C. Cassar
Feb 16th, 19:54
Austin Gatt qed jinheba u gab skuza li ghax il-kompjuter ma kellux regional settings dak iz-zmien. Jekk l-email ikunu bl-Outlook u taghmel export kif suppost u ttellahhom fuq kompjuter modern dawk l emails l-antiki awtomatikament jirtu l-headers godda u l-kontenut biss ma jitbiddilx, kemm tas-suggett u kemm tal-email innifisha.
George Cassar
Feb 16th, 19:54
"email had a data in Maltese"
That is the simplest thing to do! If you open an old email from 1990 today, and your computer is set to Maltese, it will show the date in Maltese. Your IT forensics are quite poor I'm afraid. But please do tell us why it took you almost a fortnight to come out and "defend" yourself. The people would like to know about the commissions not about silly things
M Borg
Feb 16th, 20:10
So will your computer also print a spelling mistake when it translates June into Maltese ?
Because the date on the emial is spelt badly.
G. Calleja
Feb 16th, 20:25
M Borg, the only place where June is spelt 'incorrectly' is the Times of Malta replica as far as I know. The original email as shown by Malta Today has a Ġ instead of a G as required.
anthony bartolo
Feb 16th, 23:23
You seem to be well experienced in meddling with computers.
J Cauchi
Feb 16th, 19:50
Did you think we are going to believe you AUST
saying a Frame up . Now the people you mentioned
above answered you as they don't have nothing to
hide. Don't play games as you are still in the spotlight
and everyone is watching you.
Denis Pace
Feb 16th, 21:08
We have had a taste of frame-ups in the past. AG has a strong case....Take it to court!
Ethelbert Schembri
Feb 16th, 19:46
This link here under will expose that whatever A.G said about the language setting he was talking about are lies as the Maltese font was already in use in 2001 and he as ICT Minister should know that!
http://www.maltamigration.com/news/times98135.shtml
Joseph Aquilina
Feb 16th, 20:37
One thing is for sure; the ICT Minister knows much much much more then you ...
There is a difference between Maltese Font and Maltese Language. The email client changes the date to Maltese format not if you install a Maltese Font but if you change your OS language setting to Maltese. The latter was only introduced after 2006 ...
Try another one!!
A Abela
Feb 16th, 20:57
@Joseph Aquilina
And what if that email was printed say last month. What format will it print?
Now you try another one
Ethelbert Schembri
Feb 16th, 22:48
Many people will do wonders with a computer and he's surprised that one could actually do that stupid thing ?? Is A.G or any of his apologists saying that people are stupid and only they can play with the computer??
Keep these idiocies coming Agostino as your credibility went skydiving!!
oliver pulis
Feb 16th, 19:43
Minister Gatt............PANICK STATION
twanny borg
Feb 16th, 19:41
Il-pl waqgha fl-aktar livell baxx, viljakk u tal-misthija li jista' jaqgha partit politiku fih. Dan mil-loppozizzjoni mela x'jigri jekk ikunu fil-gvern? Nispera li l-pulizija taghgixxi immedjatament, tinvestiga u tressaq hu min hu.
Noel Borg
Feb 16th, 19:57
Mr Borg, may I remind you that most, if not all top posts in Government and Government consisted bodies are selected by political people. When good decisions and good performance is achieved by them, the Government gets due credit so I think that it's only fair that the Government (or rather Dr Gatts assumed it's responsibility in the Oil commission scandal, x'tahseb?
twanny borg
Feb 16th, 20:30
@noel borg. Sakemm ma jkunx hemm provi li ag ha xi flus m'ghandux jithammeg b'tajn. Lanqas naqbel li n-nies kollha kienu appuntati ghax nazzjonalisti ghax hemm laburisti li huma dedikati daqs nazzjonalisti u hekk ghandu jkun. Kien hemm zmien fi zmien alfred sant li l-pl beda jghid li l-kapijiet tad-dipartimenti jkunu laburisti biex iwetqu l-politika tal-pl.
Wally Vella-Zarb
Feb 16th, 21:04
Twanny Borg, Alfred Sant halla lil partitarji Nazzjonalisti li kellhom karigi gholjin fejn kienu. (Hemm min jghid li dan kien wiehed mill-aghar zbalji tieghu). Ghall-kuntrarju, kien Ministru Nazzjonalist li kien ftahar li jippreferi jara skrivaniji vojta milli mimlijin mill-Laburisti.
JOHN WHITE
Feb 17th, 08:07
@Wally Vella-Zarb
Imma r-realta mhux hekk habib anzi f`certu entitajiet lahqu hafna aktar laburisti milli nazzjonalisti.Jigifieri tigriex fil-konkluzjonijiet tieghek
A Dimech
Feb 16th, 19:37
tort ta; kullhadd imbarra tieghu.
were the e-mails not leaked out by Maltatoday and the Times? are these owned by PL?!!
anthony bartolo
Feb 16th, 23:32
Not owned but HIGHJACKED.
Peter Simpson
Feb 16th, 19:30
The biggest scandal in Maltese history involving the highest electricity bills ever and no one resigns! We want answers from A.G. and not questions.
Joseph Aquilina
Feb 16th, 19:23
"last email published was very suspicious in that computers could only be set in Maltese from 2006 onwards, yet this email, purportedly from 2004, had a date in Maltese."
Anyone from the lejber party has a counter argument on this one??
Willie Grech
Feb 16th, 20:03
Aquilina, if you care to read some of the posts here you should learn much more. But maybe your blue eyes cannot see what you don't want to see. Read and learn before you write to apologise for something or someone who is full of wrong doings!!!
Joseph Aquilina
Feb 16th, 20:32
@Willie Grech
... you failed to answer my question ...
Mr Alistaire Gill
Feb 16th, 20:54
Joey, ara x' ministru fjakk kellna biex ma jafx kif id-dati ta' l-emails jinbidlu awtomatikament jekk taghmel update.
Li hu zgur hu li kemm int u kemm jien li meta nircievu l-kont tal-Arms (mhux tort tal Arms) qed inhallsu parti minnu biex naghmlu tajjeb ghal kickbacks. Jekk int kuntent b'dan, jien m'hinix.
Noel Cuschieri
Feb 17th, 03:16
Aquilina, Mr W. Grech is right; read some of the other posts...
joseph francalanza
Feb 16th, 19:22
From an IT point of view transferring Outlook data files from pre-2006 systems to a newer system can have the old emails-even from 1999(pre-2000)-to be displayed and printed with title headers(from/to/ date/subject) in the newer format according to the language and regional settings of the newer operating system irrelevant how old.So,saying that a 2004 email cannot have maltese headers is nonsense
Alexander Genuis
Feb 16th, 19:21
Jekk ghall argument Nghidu li Dr.Gatt Ghandhu ragun,li l-PL ghamillu Frame up u Kien jaf dawr l-iskandlu,ghalfejn Hu,Dr.Gatt dam daqshekk,kwazi tliet gimghat biex Johrog u Jghid li Qal issa!!Ghala Dam Daqshekk?????????!!!!!Jigifieri Dr.Gatt Kien jaf li l-PL ghamillu Frame Up,il-PL kien Jaf u Hu qaghad relaxed,tliet gimghat Jistenna biex JIDDEFENDI Ruhu?????!!!!??!!
R. Saliba
Feb 16th, 20:28
why all these '?!!!?!?!' on your post? He had to wait because the police told him not to speak. He obviously could not hold it in any longer.
Julian Grech
Feb 16th, 19:20
Ta' xejn kien hemm min talab l-mahfra presidenzjali nahseb aust! billi qed jimplika 3 min-nies ohra xorta mhux ha ninsew l-inizjali fl-emails ta
jm busuttil
Feb 16th, 19:19
" Dr Gatt pointed out that last email published was very suspicious in that computers could only be set in Maltese from 2006 onwards, yet this email, purportedly from 2004, had a date in Maltese."
Very interesting nice one Labour.
A Abela
Feb 16th, 21:00
Try to print one of your own old emails today but before set your language to maltese and see what happens
Anthony Galdes
Feb 16th, 19:15
Pathetic!! All this happened under your watch! Any responsible person would simply bow out of scene, not that you very conveniently haven't done so but giving such 'coached' press meetings with right well rehearses questions asked is simply pathetic! In recent years your name has become synonymous with failed projects and dirty deeds done dirt cheap ... or rather not so cheap! ;)
George Cassar
Feb 16th, 19:10
Dr.Gatt,
That is the simplest thing to do! If you open an old email from 1990 today, and your computer is set to Maltese, it will show the date in Maltese. Your IT forensics are quite poor I'm afraid. But please do tell us why it took you almost a fortnight to come out and "defend" yourself. That would really be enlightening!
R. Saliba
Feb 16th, 20:29
no it doesn't.
A Abela
Feb 16th, 21:09
Try again Sur Saliba. Mine worked on xp and windows 7 Jekk jinteressak f dawn il posts hemm instructions. Ma hmiltx li l ministru Gatt jittrattana ta inbicilli u jigi jghid li ma tistax tipprintja email tat 2004 bid data maltija
Wilfred Camilleri
Feb 16th, 19:08
The PL will stoop very low to score political points. And many want to entrust them with runing (oops, ruining) the country!
Noel Cuschieri
Feb 17th, 03:06
Mr Camilleri,
Can you please elaborate more on your comment?
Thomas C. Cassar
Feb 16th, 19:06
Austin Gatt qed jinheba u gab skuza li ghax il-kompjuter ma kellux regional settings dak iz-zmien. Jekk l-email ikunu bl-Outlook u taghmel export kif suppost u ttellahhom fuq kompjuter modern dawk l emails l-antiki awtomatikament jirtu l-headers godda u l-kontenut biss ma jitbiddilx, kemm tas-suggett u kemm tal-email innifisha.
Ramon Casha
Feb 16th, 19:05
"Dr Gatt pointed out that... that computers could only be set in Maltese from 2006 onwards, yet this email, purportedly from 2004, had a date in Maltese."
Actually in 2001 I was already working on the Maltese translation of the KDE user interface for Linux. Support for the Maltese locale was MUCH earlier - even in Windows.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/maltese-computing/message/232?var=1
N Chetcuti
Feb 16th, 19:00
This is an exact replica of what happened five years ago only this time AG is not crying. Five years ago I believed and voted PN. You will not fool me again. Never again.
Albert Pace
Feb 16th, 18:55
This is the same Minister that called for investigating the Auditor General when the results did not suit him!
21 more days and a very GOOD RIDDANCE to you AG!
Lawrence Hallett
Feb 16th, 18:50
desperate, its ok austin the bus arriva como natale!
Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 16th, 18:46
The stench of a suspected organised frame up and the publication of vague e-mails that were evidently retouched and could have been obtained during confidential lawyer-client relations, is sickening and overpowering. The dirtiest muck is sticking to the hands of the hypocritical throwers of this dirt.
M Grima
Feb 16th, 22:43
And how did you come to these conclusions Holmes? The only muck I have seen is coming from Id-Dar Centrali.
Noel Cuschieri
Feb 17th, 02:56
Are you sure you are commenting on this news item? Or your comment should have been placed somewhere else, and by mistake it has been put here?!!
Robert Agius
Feb 17th, 06:52
The delirious doctor is up to his shenanigans again...
JOHN WHITE
Feb 17th, 08:02
Well said Mr.Saliba
Noel Mifsud
Feb 16th, 18:44
Naqra u ma nistax nemmen. Mulej tini is sahha li nemmen dawn l affarijiet. Nixtieq insaqsi jekk int ikollok xi haga il bank u bi zball jew ghax tinsa ma tidikjarhom fir return tat tqaxxa ma tehilx xi multa. Ma nafx ta xi hadd jista jurini pl.?
twanny borg
Feb 16th, 20:12
Min qallek li ma iddikjarahhomx fit-taxxa?
Noel Mifsud
Feb 16th, 20:38
proset twanny igifieri mis sistema li holoqm hu stess tal MITA u ma nafx xiex ma nstanitx id diskrepanza bejn ir returns tat taxxa u id dikjarazzjonijiet li ghamel fil parlament Hu stess qal li insijhom. Mulej nerga nitolbok ghini nifhem dil balbuljata. Pero ma dana kollux proset Aust ghax wara 3 weeks sirna nafu minn int, u wara dankollu ftakart li kellek ktieb l isvizzera.
B. Borg
Feb 16th, 18:39
Even before some time in 2000 from MITTS website you could download a file named malta.ini that used to have Maltese Fonts, but also you could turn 01/01/2001, automatically to 1 ta' Jannar 2001, I am quite sure of this as I used it at work at that time, in a job that I left in 2001
Massimo Gatt
Feb 16th, 18:37
What? I have been using the Maltese language on my computer since ~2000
M Grima
Feb 16th, 18:36
GonziPN, especially Dr. Gatt have hit rock bottom and the proverbial straw has turned into a boulder which has taken the party down into the dirty slime. You have been reading too many comics Dr. Gatt!!!
B. Borg
Feb 16th, 18:35
About 11 years ago in April 2002 I bought a new PC running Windows XP, when I had set up my regional settings as Malta, I had the date and time in Maltese. What Austin Gatt is saying?
Chris Mifsud
Feb 16th, 18:31
Typical Labour... God forbid they get elected as we will be thrown back to the 1980s.
Noel Cuschieri
Feb 17th, 02:45
"Typical Labour" !!! Can you please explain in more detail? And by the way, can't you see that AG's arrogance is making HIM believe that all Maltese people are stupid?!!!
Robert Agius
Feb 17th, 06:53
the Horror!! The Horror!
M Grima
Feb 16th, 18:31
If this pantomime weren't for real I would probably laugh but this is real folks.
Dr. Gatt, please take a long vacation!!!!
Paul Caruana
Feb 16th, 18:30
What a wonderful country we live in! Everyone in politics is on the straight and narrow, which explains why locally cabinet ministers never resign. How can they, being such noble paradigms of virtue.
Conclusion: any allegations of corruption towards such enlightened beings must therefore be result of the insane utterances of an individual, an attempt at a frame up, or a combination of the two.
N. Aquilina
Feb 16th, 18:30
Dr. Gatt tal Ajkla kredibbli iktar minnek!
twanny borg
Feb 16th, 20:09
@N. aquilina- Dawn huma t-twegibiet tal-pl? L-istess tip ta' kummenti tal-pl taqra kumment taqra kollha. Kollha l-istess haga tajn u xejn sugu. Indikazzjoni li inkixfu. Prosit austin gatt.
Joe Bonanno
Feb 16th, 23:01
T Borg
So all pl comments are just vacuous? Let me point out a few things to you. 1 it is Austin Gatt making all the accusations, mud-slinging and seeing conspiracies everywhere. 2 So far he hasn't produced one shred of evidence to back up his allegations. 3 Don't confuse opinions, conjecture, supposition, speculation and wild accusations by AG with facts.
Noel Cuschieri
Feb 17th, 02:39
@ twanny borg
X'prosit?!! Prosit ta' xiex?!! Ghidilna ta' xiex...!!
Andrew Vella
Feb 16th, 18:29
Austin Gatt, all persons of good will are on your side
Mr Alistaire Gill
Feb 16th, 21:00
Then there are hardly any people of good will!
Robert Agius
Feb 17th, 06:54
Indeed corruption begins morally...
M Grima
Feb 16th, 18:28
This guy is simply amazing. He dreams of frame-ups, he dreams of police reports, he dreams that everyone is picking on him, he dreams he gets things done and they turn our to be failures, he dreams of leakages and he keeps on dreaming. Its good to dream Dr. Gatt but becoming an obsession can be unhealthy.
M Grima
Feb 16th, 18:26
If Dr. Gatt goes on like this the producers of the 'Carry On' film series might strongly consider another sequel, maybe 'Carry On dreaming........'
anthony bartolo
Feb 16th, 23:53
Carry On Dreaming...............that is what the PL be doing after the 9th election result.
M Grima
Feb 16th, 18:23
Wow, we believe you!
By the way did you by any chance forget to mention some other Labour candidate who is part of the frame-up? I am asking this because you have a habit of forgetting important matters like for example declaring your Swiss bank account to the list of your assets!!!!
Eve Axiaq
Feb 16th, 18:22
Lejliet elezzjoni fxi hadd trid twahhal.
j brincat
Feb 16th, 18:21
"He pointed out that Labour candidate David Farrugia Sacco was the defence lawyer for the Farrugia brothers, owners of the John’s Group"
AND what does this mean, Sherlock?
jb
JOHN WHITE
Feb 17th, 07:47
It means that David could know something that you and me don`t know.
Is it that difficult to understand?? Yawn ....
R Vassallo
Feb 16th, 18:20
As email dates are generated automatically by the computer, the computer will automatically generate the date using the language pack active at that moment in time when it is printed. It has nothing to do with the original time period in which the email was written. The writer could have used a Chinese language pack in 2004,if he uses a maltese language pack in 2013 it will print out in maltese.
Mr Stephen Borg
Feb 16th, 18:19
Come on the more you try to defend your overdue untenable position the more we confirm that Franco Debono was right in your regards. All reforms you where involved in where gaffes or like in this case and the BWSC case where there are serious concerns concerning corruption.
Peter Bonnici
Feb 16th, 18:17
Now it gets interesting.
Victor Laiviera
Feb 16th, 18:17
And Elvis is alive and living on Mars, John F Kennedy is alive in a nursing home and George Bush was responsible for 9/11.
Get real. "Aust".
anthony bartolo
Feb 17th, 00:01
Vitor Laiviera...................... you should contiue, and the PN was responsable for the frame up of Pietru Pawl Busuttil. Hallina!!
Mr Alistaire Gill
Feb 16th, 18:14
It seems that AG was not convincing in his press conference 2 days ago.
So much so that he felt the need to do another one today.
Yet he was even less convincing today.
zammit o
Feb 16th, 18:13
This is incredible!.. Now Austin wants us to believe that he is a victim..
Edgar Gambin
Feb 16th, 18:08
Frame ups are Labour's speciality. This time they have picked the wrong person. If what Austin is saying is true than the electorate has better to open their eyes before it is too late.
Mr Alistaire Gill
Feb 16th, 21:03
He has to explain his accusations in court now.
The three persons he accused called his bluff within the hour.
Ethelbert Schembri
Feb 16th, 18:08
The mud slide from Austin Gat continues .. He's trying to come out of this mess by twist and turn everything as the lawyer and shrewd politician he is.
If he knows what is accountability he would have resigned and let the investigators do their job with peace of mind and not keep on imposing his presence. And how about that mysterious Swiss bank account, how can we be sure he don't hold more?
Jade Schembri
Feb 16th, 18:05
Shrewed Austin hanging on to dear life. Need to keep a straight face for another month
Malcolm Farrugia
Feb 16th, 18:03
Don't be absurd Austin, it's a known fact that Evarist Bartolo is always on the forefront to unncover frame ups. To implicate that Evarist would somehow be involved ina political frame up beggars belief!
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