PN’s general secretary Paul Borg Olivier this afternoon said he would not be intimated by Labour’s threats to imprison him and would continue to “speak the truth”.

Dr Borg Oliver spoke to the press after giving a statement to the police in Ħamrun, as requested, to help in their investigations.

Police action was demanded by Labour candidate Manwel Mallia following PN’s claims that he was somehow involved in the ongoing oil corruption scandal.

The action against Dr Borg Olivier specifically concerns an article on the PN media website maltarightnow.com, titled ‘Three Labour candidates involved in oil scandal’, which repeated claims made by Finance Minister Tonio Fenech in a press conference that Dr Mallia was “involved” in the ongoing oil buying scandal.

Dr Borg Olivier today said he was committed to continue exposing Labour’s “lies” as it had also done in the case involving drugs in a Labour Party’s Safi club.

He said the last person to be sent to prison for such criminal action was a PN journalist under a Labour Government.

“This shows how Labour is taking us back to those times with threats being made against people who are fighting for the truth,” Dr Borg Olivier said.

Dr Borg Olivier said he never sued anyone for criminal libel even though he had had the opportunity to do so.