Interviews yield no leads in drugs probe in PL club
The police have interviewed all the persons involved in the allegations of possible drug trafficking at a Labour Party club but this did not help them make any progress in their investigation.
The allegations emerged from a secret recording of PL deputy leader Toni Abela.
None of those interviewed revealed any information which could further lead to identify the person or place mentioned in the recording, the police said. They did not specify where the alleged crime took place, or when the interviews took place. The investigation started in October 2010.
In the recording, Dr Abela was told by the president of an unnamed club that someone was seen “cutting up a white block” in the kitchen. Dr Abela sacked the barman of the club but did not report the incident to the police.
Full story in The Times.
Popular Stories
Update 3: Marsa murder - Police looking...
Update 2: Three arrests after flamingo...
Former Judge Ray Pace found dead
Where’s Everybody staff is given notice
Revealed...the face of a Maltese woman...
Update 4 - Eddie Fenech Adami stable...
Update 3 - Woman trapped as car crashes...
Updated - Two bodies, capsized boat,...
Franco Mercieca doing routine eye ops at...
In Discussion
Update 2: Three arrests after flamingo...
Enemalta seeking minimum five year gas...
Mario de Marco, Zammit Dimech concede,...
Chinese company to study Malta-Gozo...
Updated - PM reacts to Labour anger on...
Franco Mercieca doing routine eye ops at...
No appeals board for first part of power...
Updated - PM comments as Franco Mercieca...
BBC site highlights illegal hunting in Malta
103 Comments
Post comment
Please sign in or create your Account to post comments.
Alfred Falzon
Feb 19th, 11:34
The PL should be true to its word & practise ZERO TOLERANCE to drug trafficking!
D latest incident is to say d least alarming for instead of taking d bull by d horns it did just like Pontius Pilate, washed its hands & pretended it was "business as usual"!
This was another LITMUS TEST for it but d PL confronted with reality failed dismally 2 d deep disappointment of many potential PL voters!
aaf
Eddy Privitera
Feb 18th, 20:38
Alfred Falzon: Imissek tinsisti ghat-trasparenza fuq L-AKBAR SKANDLU LI QATT SAR F'PAJJIZNA , DAK DWAR IL-KUMMISSJONIJIET FIX.-XIRI TAZ-ZEJT !
Alfred Falzon
Feb 19th, 10:29
@ Eddy Privitera
Naqbel mieghek perfettament imma m'ghandix ghamad politiku fuq ghajnejja!
Sirt naf naghraf is-sewwa u nwarrab is-sikrana anke jekk din qed tinbet f'Partit li jien haddant ghal snin twal u ghadni nemmen fit-tajjeb tieghu s'issa!
L-istess bhal Dr Anglu Farrugia, ti twarrab b'vilta' b'daqqa ta' sikkina f'daharu!
Trid aktar provi minn dan?!
Ghandi biex inbiegh!
Alfred A Falzon
Alfred Falzon
Feb 18th, 19:32
The club is an unnamed entity, so the mystery deepens and the PL is neither anxious to make a clearcut statement for fear of stepping on someone's toes!
Is the emphasis now any longer on "transparency" and "accountability"?!
Some are inclined to think and, rightly so, that the PL is just paying lip service to empty promises!!
aaf
Frank Zammit
Feb 19th, 06:16
The ones who are playing lip service is the PN with its cruel and disgusting attitude. I have never seen the PN sink so low; and for what? Just to win an election? Is this CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY? You know darn well that Dr. Abela did nothing wrong. He acted as a responsible person and in return, without any concern for the individual and his family, crucifies a person without any remorse what so ever
Alfred Falzon
Feb 19th, 10:23
@ Frank Zammit
To my knowledge Pontius Pilate was not crucified! He just washed his hands & let d Pharisees go for their kill!
The PL is responsible for its clubs, d people who run them & it should have been ZERO TOLERANCE in d case of an alleged DRUG TRAFFICKING!
Merchants of death r d ones who are crucifying WHOLE families in Malta & the PL should be ASHAMED of taking a cue from PILATE!!
aaf
Chris Finch
Feb 18th, 16:31
Why didn't the president of the unnamed club report the person 'cutting up a white block' to the police as was his duty?
It seems that Abela is only a circumstantial witness. Why was the reporting of the 'person cutting up a white block' secretly videotaped?
Frank Zammit
Feb 19th, 06:28
Perhaps because he was concerned for his own safety and that of his family. Yes I agree, there seems to be a mysterious and sinister motive behind this. The truth is that the PN will stop at nothing to win the election. Now what could the reason be? What they should be really concerned about is why millions of Euros were squandered in commission and to whom. Typical PN arrogance. Shame on you PN.
George Calleja
Feb 18th, 16:16
Comment No 1. Why is it always the same ? When there's some illegal story, most of all bloggers, try to hide the seriousness of it by comparing to some similar story of yesteryear.
Comment No 2
Have the Police Corps turned into a boy scout group by any chance?
Charles P Cilia
Feb 18th, 15:43
Looks like Dr. Abela succeeded.
Carmel Camilleri
Feb 18th, 15:03
An investigation should be made into the police behaviour regarding this case .
Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 18th, 15:03
It is not surprising that police "Interviews yield no leads in drugs probe in PL club" if the drugs had been made to disappear before the police ever learned about the criminal drug trafficking and from sources other than those responsible for the labour party club or who gave them legal advice and who, most conveniently, won't talk because of lawyer-client confidentiality.
Joe Bonanno
Feb 18th, 15:01
First, I'll state my position regarding drug dealers. I hate each and everyone of them. They're merchants of death. One Brazilian dealer, was convicted because the judicial authorities gave their all to put him behind bars where he belonged. Subsequently this work was undermined by the PN that freed him with a presidential pardon. How many lives has that decision costs?
Louis Craus
Feb 18th, 14:58
Tiftakruh lil Queros..........Min helsu mill- habs ?
Tiftakru dak il- kaz tat-Telgha tax- Xemxija meta kien ghaddej il- Prim Ministru, u fil-prezenza tal- pulizija, il- Prim Ministru qallu " suq, hawn jien nikkmanda "?
Tiftakru x'kien jigri fil- kazin tal- Partit Nazzjonalista tal-Mosta...........anke "pole dancing ?
Tiftakru il- kaz ta' certa persuna li fil- computer kellu kazi "pedofelija "?
Emanuel Farrugia
Feb 18th, 15:27
Naqbel mieghek 100%.
Emanuel Farrugia former Executive Secretary Mtarfa Local Council
Joe Pace Asciak
Feb 18th, 14:34
Please don’t put these questions directly to J.M: Did Dr. T. Abela inform you about this crime? When exactly?
Emanuel Farrugia
Feb 18th, 14:14
Kuragg Toni, ghax kull minn ghandu halqu, kulhadd jghid li jaqbel lilu, basta ihammeg. Inti professjonist onest.
Emanuel Farrugia former Executive Secretary Mtarfa Local Council
Antoine Vella
Feb 18th, 13:50
For those who think this is an insignificant affair, this is what we're talking about:
http://www.addictionsearch.com/treatment_articles/article/cocaine-abuse-addiction-and-addicts_154.html
Michael Magri
Feb 18th, 13:17
Now that`s a dirty Frame Up, (by the one who recorded the discussion), on Dr Abela, if i ever saw one...!!!
Mark Pace
Feb 18th, 12:36
Toni should apologize & resign. When one speaks of drugs, we are speaking of our sons, daughters & families. We are not talking about PN or PL....these are what we have most at heart, our children. No more excuses....time up Toni! muscat.com should explain why he is backing such business also! Is this the Malta Taghna lkoll that you want? No thanks!
vincent Lia
Feb 18th, 21:14
I do not mind even if he does not resign but he should admit that he made a gross mistake by giving a bad example that we will not report crime especially drug trafficking. Society cannot just hope the police will catch criminals they need our help. Shame on everyone that takes sides with the attitude the PL took. Well done to TVAM for condemning this attitude of PL that supports drug trafficers.
peppino schembri
Feb 18th, 12:19
This is all a trick by the nationalists. They are trying to cling to every straw now since they know that they are in trouble regarding the oil scandal and their possible involvement. They are trying to shift the attention from them and direct it on such a case. People are getting more and more aware who is the real party who deserves leading the country in for the next 5 years. Defenitely the PL.
vincent Lia
Feb 18th, 13:06
It is a shame that people like peppino protects and supports a man that hid evidence from the police by not reporting a case where there was a block of drugs. Everyone is under obligation to help stop drug criminals they sell what can kill your children.
Noel Cuschieri
Feb 18th, 17:37
Mr Lia,
With the money that we can recover from CORRUPTION, we can fight better drug trafficking!!! So let's focus on RECOVERING the money first, and then we continue our fight agaist drugs!!!
HERMANN PAUL FARRUGIA
Feb 18th, 12:08
This AM I heard TVAM: voice,tone,transcript of Toni Abela's recording.I humbly ask him to assume full political consequence for his decision to be CIVICALLY ABSENT in the face of clear drug manipulation in the youth sensitive setting of a political club.NOBODY has yet said that clearly TONI HIMSELF INFERS HIS CONSCIENCE FELT HE OUGHT to report to Police!So for Toni,PL1,LAW for YOUTH & LIFE is 2nd!
Catlyn Buttigieg
Feb 18th, 12:08
Il fatt hu li meta gara l kaz kien hemm ksur ta ligi gravi u rapport ma sarx dak inhar jew ghall inqas fil granet ta wara. Biex issir gustizja ma minn seta kiser il ligi.
A Abela
Feb 18th, 13:01
Jekk kien hemm ksur tal ligi gravi, allura ghalfejn il kumissarju ma hax passi. Issa anki il kummissarju tal puluzija hazin. Halluna
Catlyn Buttigieg
Feb 18th, 14:57
A abela
int isek taf iktarminn haddiehor skond kif hawn miktub l investigazzjonijiet ghadhom ghaddejjin. Serrah rasek li jien ghandi fiducja shiha fil korp tal pulizija. Nistennew u naraw x se jigri
J. Vella
Feb 18th, 12:01
Safejn naf jien "blokka" tista tkun haxixa biss. Imma dik kannella tkun u mhux bajda. l-kokaina sa fejn naf jien trab. ma kinietx xi sapuna tal-hwejjeg hux bhal ma kienu sabu fuq xi jott xi snin ilu u mhux droga?
Anthony Scicluna
Feb 18th, 13:56
You are wrong. The powder is packed tightly in a plastic bag as a "block" or a key (if a kilo)
m. borg (slm)
Feb 18th, 11:57
"“cutting up a white block” in the kitchen."
Reminds me of the Talcum Powder a certain female blogger mentioned used at a party by a magistrate only to with draw the allegations later in a criminal libel case against her.
People with bad blood go a long way to invent or imagine things. After all why did the discharged barman clear up the evidence before tell Dr Abela about the incident.
Anthony Scicluna
Feb 18th, 12:37
So what! Toni Abela covered the fact when he should have reported it to the police. Do you condone drugs?
H. Psaila
Feb 18th, 12:40
Min jaf kieku wiehed mit-tfal tieghek jekk ghandek jiehu dak li qieghed tghid terra taqbizx ghalih. Intom il-Laburisti kollox sew li taghmlu u kollox jiddispjacini nghid li taghmlu u tghidu politikalment.
After all why did the discharged barman clear up the evidence before tell Dr Abela about the incident. - mela il-barman gie imkecci ghall xejn hux hekk qieghed tghid.
Joe Tabone
Feb 18th, 11:23
Are we missing the point here?
Bottom line is that we have a politician who believes that not reporting this case is morally correct. The name of party (PL) is more important than keeping our youth away from drugs.
Now we understand why Labour (MLP) never prosecuted any 'BARUNIJIET' amid all their allegations!
Willie Grech
Feb 18th, 12:51
Tabone
With your own reasoning, we also know why the 'BARUNIJIET' when caught, get away! Francisco de Assis Queiroz and Zeppi l-Hafi immediately come to mind. Oh, and recently we heard that at the Mosta PN club there was all kinds of ill goings on, like prostitution and drug trafficking but were never reported. Remember the weapon hidden at the PN M'Xlokk club which killed il-Bona?
JIMMY ATANASIO
Feb 18th, 13:53
you don't know what you're talking about.that happens all over the world and it's called slandering your opponent.it 's a ploy by the nationalists to make sure that the labor party won't get elected.sometimes that just backfires.
Joseph Grech Attard
Feb 18th, 11:22
So, Gonzi PN & some of its bloggers here, are raising suspicions on the police force. First GonziPN ignores the police to proceed with the Enemalta investigation & it goes ahead with giving a pardon; now they put serious doubts on the police investigations in the case of Dr. Abela. Maybe the barman should also be given a presidential pardon! GonziPN cabinet has become the prosecutor and the judge!
john muscat
Feb 18th, 11:16
Is the minister for Internal Affairs or PN responsible for drug trafficking in the prisons? I am sure not, and so is Dr. Abela. No one can raise his arms without smelling his armpits.
Joseph Portelli
Feb 18th, 11:12
Eddy Privitera jghaggbek bir-ragunamenti tieghu! Ghandu eta bizzejjed biex jiftakar li l-aghar skandli ta' korruzzjoni saru fi zmien is-socjalisti tal-1980's! Jaf x'kellna Malta ghax ghandu eta bizzejjed!! U issa li emm recordings cari ta' tony abela u toni zarb irid jibqa' jiddefendi dak li amlu! Il-fatt li hadd mil-labour mhu qed jikkopera mal-pulizija hi inkwetanti iktar!
S. Attard
Feb 18th, 11:07
What about the GreenMT contract? Is the PL if in office, going to investigate how waste contracts by Local Councils were given to GreenMT? The voters have the right to know.
marius mifsud
Feb 18th, 11:05
eq l-iskandlu taz zejt rega zviluppa aktar il-bierah allura il pn ghandu bzonn another dose of smoke screening
Anthony Falzon
Feb 18th, 10:56
Yesterday on the T.V news it was revealed that one of the men in the kitchen when the drugs were being prepared was the son of one of the commitee members....so how come when the police started investigating no one new who the two persons were? Just a cover up to protect the drug pushers.
twanny borg
Feb 18th, 10:48
Skont toni abela dan ma infurmax lil joseph muscat dwar il-kaz. kaz serju bhal dan ta' blokka droga bajda ma infurmahx?
James Dewar
Feb 18th, 10:45
Maybe it was a block of white cooking lard that was being cut up in the kitchen! No offences committed!
Eddy Privitera
Feb 18th, 10:42
Ta' GonziPN mhux qed jindunaw li meta qed jaqbdu ma hmerijiet biex jippruvaw jghattu L-AKBAR SKANDLU POLITIKU li qatt sehh f'pajjizna, il-votanti aktat qed jindunaw li QATGHU QALBHOM jikkronfrontaw lill-PL fuq il-program elettorali. U fuq il-vizjoni cara li ghandu Dr. Joseph Muscat ghal-pajjizna - DIK LI JGHAQQAD IL-POPLU flok li jkompli jifirdu, kif ghamel u qed ikompli jaghmel, Lawrence Gonzi !
Thomas Anderson
Feb 18th, 10:36
So GonziPN is still flogging this dead horse. So what action was taken when GonziPN Mosta club was turned into a Strip Club? Was anyone questioned by the police? As for Mr Micallef calling everyone morons because they support Labour, morons are the people who are paying high utilities tarrifs because of the backhanders taken by very high people. Some of them cowards parading as bullies.
Anthony Scicluna
Feb 18th, 10:34
If you protect drug pushers, traffickers and manufacturers then you are guilty as they are. This is not an issue of partisan politics now - we're going into the realm of organised crime and a particular kind of habit that kills us and our kids and destroys families. Muscat is a parent and yet he defends Abela. It is clear that he knows little of the destructiveness of drugs. Where's moral fibre?
Mr ALBERT LEONE GANADO
Feb 18th, 10:30
So now it transpires that the police commissioner informing ,that there was no case, was arrived after serious investigation. Let the PN in order to alienate from serious cases of corruption continue to flog this dead donkey.It is only serving as an ineffective construed counterpoint to serious cases involving taxpayer's money and which the man in the street is truly concerned and angry about
Cornelius Murphy
Feb 18th, 11:06
By his own admission in the recording, Toni Abela knows who this dealer is because he asked the club president who discovered the cocaine-cutting make a formal statement to this person. So how is there no case? How are the police satisfied that their interviews yielded no leads?
Serious investigation my foot!
Ronnie Callus
Feb 18th, 11:43
Agree hundred percent with your statement.Dr.Gonzi and his group are waisting their time and ours in order not to concentrate on theOIL COMMISSIONS, the responsable persons running the Ministries and DrGonzi himself who should have been informed by Dr.Tonio Fenech about the investigationby the Tax Compliance Unit.A number of times attention was drawn how is the MRA getting their fuel/energy costs
Michael Sammut
Feb 18th, 12:03
Indeed. The PN has only lost points with me with this charade. I expect these games from the PM, Min. Gatt and Min. Fenech. They are old school PN. It is however highly disappointing to see the new blood, namely Dr Busuttil, resorting to negative tactics which bring us nowhere. What the people want to know is why wasn't Enemalta better managed, and value for money delivered? Heads should roll.
Charles Bugeja
Feb 18th, 10:22
dan il kaz ifakkarni f dak ta cirio del negro ftit snin ilu!!!
Eve Axiaq
Feb 18th, 10:20
Haga tal-ghageb il barman ma kienx jaf min jidhol fil-kcina tieghu. Bhal kieku wiehed idahhal in-nies f'daru minghajr ma jaf u lanqas jaf x'inhuma.
Ronnie Callus
Feb 18th, 12:17
U halliena mill Barman Eve. Huwa lanqas fil-habs ma' kienu jafu x'qed isir. Mela qatt ma'smajt kemm droga imxit fil-habs ( jew correctional facility) kif bil-pulit isejhula huma. Insejt bil-Barunessa tal -habs ukoll ?? Ma' kellniex tmexxija serja u Onesta u hemm bzonn titnaddaf. Dan qed ihoss il-poplu.
Mr Joe Micallef
Feb 18th, 10:18
As a parent heartfelt thanks to Toni Abela and whoever supports him. Morons!
Eddy Privitera
Feb 18th, 10:32
Joe Micallef: Taht GonziPN IL-HABS SAR QISU IL-MONTI TAD-DROGA !!!!
N. Aquilina
Feb 18th, 10:52
Did you also send a heartfelt thanks to Dr. Eddie Fenech Adami who gave a presidential pardon to Querioz one of the most infamous drug dealers that Malta has ever seen? I guess not as Dr. Fenech Adami was part of the PN not LP.
Mr Joe Micallef
Feb 18th, 11:07
By the looks of it MLP will turn it into a supermarket. Wait a minute who had suggested the idea of political party supermarkets..........
Ronnie Callus
Feb 18th, 11:47
Mela insejt Joe kemm il-darba ingibditilkom l-attenzjoni rigward id-dtoga u kemm droga ittiehdet fil-habs.Insejt li droga darba qalulna li kienu blokki tas-sappun.
Daniel Zarb
Feb 18th, 11:51
Joe Micallef forgot all about the pole dancing and cocaine abuse in the PN Mosta club reported back in 2010. And guess what? They did not report any of it to the police. What a shocker!
Mr Joe Micallef
Feb 18th, 12:24
Callus & Zarb, that Mosta case shows the diametrically opposite difference between the PN and the MLP. When the PN was informed about the case the police where immediately informed. When Toni Abela had "concrete proof" of drug trafficking, for political convenience, he shielded it from the police.
Keep spinning if you will but those are the facts. Another fact is that both of you support Toni
H. Psaila
Feb 18th, 12:42
E. Privitera - mela insejtu fi zmienkom kemm kien hawn drogi bl'addocc, ma kienx hawn cikkulata imma droga kien hawn kemm trid
J Mifsud
Feb 18th, 13:13
H Psaila, sfortunantament id-drogi kienu hawn u ghadhom hawn. Illum mur sa party, Paceville, festi, u sahansitra tigijiet u jekk tfittex id-droga issibha. Aqra naqra il-gurnali u tisma hafna stejjer kuljum minn dawn. Xejn sigriet.
Alfred Vassallo
Feb 18th, 13:28
@Mr Joe Micallef
And I as a parent thanks PN government for their illustrious decision to set free a CONVICTED drug dealer by the name of Francisco de Assis Queiroz when Malta under the PN was 'MIFQUHA bil droga and they have the gall to say that no corruption takes place under their administration. Morons of the highest order!
Mr Joe Micallef
Feb 18th, 14:20
Vassallo, I understand your support for Toni in this disgusting affair but your confusion does not et you think before you write. And to think that you outlined the difference in CAPS.
Noel Cuschieri
Feb 18th, 17:47
Mr Micallef, can you please tell us exactly why you seem to be very angry? I don't think TA would have solved much of the drugs problem in Malta had he done otherwise!
Anthony Farrugia
Feb 18th, 10:17
It's one thing for the police not gathering enough evidence for criminal proceedings to commence. But Dr Toni Abela seems not wanting to accept political responsibility; maybe he is waiting for the "e tu Brute" moment like his pal Angelo Farrugia who has been paid off with a trip to the Falklands, of all god-forsaken places !
Eddy Privitera
Feb 18th, 10:30
Anthony Farrugia: Writing about "political responsibility" ? The biggest example of POLITICAL IRRESPONSIBILITY was shown by Lawrence Gonzi when, knowing that he did not have parliamentary majority - as Simon Busuttil admitted on Xarabank - he failed to call an election, rendering parliament as just a talking-shop !
twanny borg
Feb 18th, 10:59
@eddy. X'differenza gonzi li rebah elezzjoni bil-maggoranza tal-voti ghal hames snin mhux bis-siggijiet u kontra l-vot tal-poplu kif ukoll li hadd ma qasam il-kamra ma' kaz serjissimu ta' blokka droga bajda. Imsieken uliedna imutu bid-drogi!! Ara li kien deputat kap tal-pn li ma jirrapurtax x'kont tghid int l-ewwel wiehed!!
Eddy Privitera
Feb 18th, 20:36
twanny Borg: Partit jitla fil.gvern sakemm ikollu maggiranza fil-parlament ! Bl-argument tieghek, mela Dr. Sant u l-PL kellu dritt jibqa fil-gvern ghal 5 snin u mhux 22 xahar ! Il-PN dak in-nhar ma rragunax kif qed tghid int illujm !
James Grech
Feb 18th, 10:03
GonziPN have the cheek to say that they are the party of change & only they are capable of governing, when all we've seen during these last weeks are senseless & uncorroborated attacks on individuals. Wasn't Gonzi that said that he lets the police to investigate? Now that these did, why is GonziPN still pursuing this story? Ppl have had enough of this arrogance & offensive behaviour.
Michael Sammut
Feb 18th, 12:08
It takes a special kind of arrogance to say that only the present government is capable of governing. An arrogance the people is long tired of. The PM is not doing himself any favours by saying those words, since only the diehards believe those words, and they are not a factor anyway. With people like me disgust is the end-result. Change cannot come too soon.
Marco Galea
Feb 18th, 09:50
Jigifieri l-barman ta interview lin-NET (Video fuq youtube) u l-pulizija ma nterrogawhx lil dan?
Albert Farrugia
Feb 18th, 09:39
This is something which I have been long insisting. What use have the political parties for these clubs? In the past we have heard of fights, prostitution, porn, drugs and in fact even murder taking place in or around these clubs. Apart from people of criminal fame hanging around them. There is nothing political about these clubs. The parties should close them, or change their nature totally.
A Spiteri
Feb 18th, 12:01
BIG LIKE!
M. Spiteri
Feb 18th, 09:37
ejja nitkellmu fuq fatti:
Il laburisti ddejqu jisimghu fuq Toni Abela
In nazzjonalisti tellfithom 3% fil polls f gimgha. (Maltatoday survey)
Il floaters mhux qed jaghtu kas dil haga ghax l korruzzjoni hija ovvja f Malta u n naha l ohra ghandhom l kaz taz zejt
So, tistghu tieqfu fuq Toni Abela ghax bla sens u jaqbel ghal kulhadd?
Franco Abela
Feb 18th, 09:50
Well said.
david debattista
Feb 18th, 09:54
well said M Spiteri .
Joe Tabone
Feb 18th, 11:18
@M Spiteri,
When you have some one close to you who is caught in the vicious circle of drugs you see things from a different perspective!!
Pauline Busuttil
Feb 18th, 11:40
Possibbli lil blokka bajda ma tinkwietakx M. Spiteri? Inti taf x'sar minnha? Ghandek xi garanzija lil giet meqruda? Taf jekk xi hadd li kien jaf bija gabariex mill dustbin u innogozja hu? Dawn huma hafna mistoqsijiet li irridu twegiba ghalijhom. Possibbli li haga bhal din tibqa ghaddejja u l-Kummissarju tal-Pulizija ma jsib xejn, assolutament xejn!! Qed jidhlu hafna dubji.
Mr Andrew Camilleri
Feb 18th, 11:46
The Pn has forgotten how Abela stood up against Lorry Sant; how they praised him when he left the LP because of the iolence and corruption. Now they want to crucify so that (they think) they can earn votes. Goes to show you how dirty they are and how they cynically make use of the law, morality and ethics. Abela is an honest and good politician -the PN should be ashamed for picking on him.
K Grech
Feb 18th, 11:47
True Facts. Agree 100%
m. borg (slm)
Feb 18th, 11:54
Jistghu jitkelmu kemm iridu, kemm il-darba huma kuntenti ikomplu jitilfu l-persentaggi.
Michael Sammut
Feb 18th, 12:13
Naqbel mieghek mitt darba u elf. U qieghed nitkellem bhala floater u mindaqshekk kburi, ghax nista' nahseb ghal rasi bil-mohh li tani il Bambin u nara b'ghajnejja bla lewnijiet ta blu u ahmar. Il-korruzjoni kulhadd xeba minnha.
M Fava
Feb 18th, 12:59
@Pauline Busuttil Jien il-commissions fuq ix-xiri tal-HFO jinkwetani wkoll mhux biss il-blokka bajda li ġiet meqruda u minħabba dan l-investigazzjoni hija mwaħħla u ma tistax timxi 'l-quddiem.
J Mifsud
Feb 18th, 13:15
I agree with u M Spiteri.
Noel Cuschieri
Feb 18th, 17:49
Spot on Mr Spiteri!! I agree 100%.
Mark Spiteri
Feb 18th, 09:14
The implications in the recordings and yesterday's interview on NET are very serious. I'm surprised how Labour are saying that the police have brushed everything aside and concluded that there are no grounds for further investigations....Is someone trying to cover up something??
Roberta Sciberras
Feb 18th, 09:48
Yes, most assuredly. The PN is trying to cover up the oil procurement scandal under a mountain of molehills! No one is falling for this pathetic strategy and the polls show it. Next!
Joseph Mifsud
Feb 18th, 10:10
Its not labour who is saying this...but the police commissioner, and all PN MPs especially those who are lawyers....Beppe Fenech Adami and PBO in the first place. So Toni Abela is just being attacked for not calling the police. Still the police had their investigations done.
D Axisa
Feb 18th, 09:10
2. Also the barman stated that the people concerned told the club's president that the barman knew nothing. But i say, if i am responsible for the club, will i let anyone that i don't know go into the kitchen. Did he know that they entered the kitchen? Also, the barman didn't mention any block, all that he said that there were people abusing of drugs.
Michael Sammut
Feb 18th, 12:19
Do we even care? Get a life. This impresses nobody. Enemalta on the other hand. That hurts my pocket. Directly. The cost of corruption. And still more cover ups and no answers. At the very least a Minister submitted a false statement of assets to Parliament. And still no resignations.
D Axisa
Feb 18th, 09:08
1. Yesterday the barman was interviewed by NETTV and it emerged that there are points to question. 1.) The barman said that the president of the club told him that there were people TAKING drugs not CUTTING. 2.) He said that one of the culprits wanted to give his mobile to the president of the club to call the Police. This begs to differ, who is that culprit who tells you to call the police?
Antoine Vella
Feb 18th, 09:03
How can the police say that their were no leads when the recording itself shows that Toni Abela knew who was involved?
Did the police "interview" the President of the club mentioned by Toni Abela? The one who personally saw the drugs being handled in the club's kitchen.
How can the police be so superficial in their statements?
Mr Andrew Camilleri
Feb 18th, 12:21
Wow! How concerned you are. How self-righteous. Where were you when no one from the PN reported the pole dancing and the drugs at the Mosta PN club? Nonbody spoke up and the LP brought it up. No such horror from you then. As in the oil scandal case, as Gonzi tells you, let the police do their work in serenity. Stop trying to influence them just because you want to crucify Abela.
M Fava
Feb 18th, 13:00
@ Mr Camilleri
A+
Richard Caruana
Feb 18th, 08:49
The barman gave an interview on NET yesterday evening, mentioning even who one of those cutting the 'blokka bajda' was in relation to the club's committee.
Maybe this guy should be interviewed once again.
And, BTW, it was the committee of that club who sacked the barman, and not Tony Abela.
Mr Andrew Camilleri
Feb 18th, 12:22
BTW and who told the committee how to proceed? Tony Abela. He obviously could not do it on his own - there are procedures to be followed, you know, not only in appointing graduates on the Enemalta Board.
twanny borg
Feb 18th, 08:46
L-investigazzjonijiet bdew fit-2010. Jista' xi hadd jistaqsi x'investigazzjonijiet kienu saru wara li david agius tal-pn ghamel ir-rapport? Jista' xi hadd jistaqsi META gew intervistati n-nies involuti jew nies li kienu jafu xi haga inkluz il-president li ghamel ir-rapport lil toni abela? Semplici n-nies gew intervistati wara r-recordings li saru dan l-ahhar jew qabel? Ghaliex ma issemiex il-post.
Victor Laiviera
Feb 18th, 08:26
I have a sneaking suspicion that the "horsemeat scandal" is a direct result of all the dead horses that the PN is flogging in a desperate attempt to claw back some political advantage.
H. Psaila
Feb 18th, 12:43
Tghoddx il-flieles qabel ifaqqsu forsi tiehu xi sorpriza
Joe Tabone
Feb 18th, 07:54
It is a know fact that such incidents should be reported to Police IMMEDIATELY to avoid tampering with evidence!
m. borg (slm)
Feb 18th, 12:00
That was the reason, the evidence had been cleared away by same man who secretly filmed the vids.
Just imagine Dr Abela going to the police with the report and they ask for evidence, Dr Abela indicates the barman who would obviously deny every thing making Dr Abela look like a fool.
Can anyone come up with a different scenario.
Please choose the reason of your report below: