Mario Camilleri, the man who brokered the Café Premier deal, denies giving money to the Labour Party, saying, instead, that he made a donation to the Nationalist Party.

Flatly denying that the €4.2 million Café Premier bailout was the result of a pre-electoral deal with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, Mr Camilleri yesterday insisted “nobody ever had as much as a coffee” off him as a result of this agreement.

Speaking after the publication of the National Audit Office’s damning report on the government’s buy-back decision, he told Times of Malta the controversy had made him look like a criminal.

“I never gave or was asked to give a penny to the Labour Party, either as Mario Camilleri or through my family companies,” he emphasised.

Read more on Times of Malta.

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