A man, who claims to have been unjustly jailed for five years for importing drugs, filed a judicial protest objecting to the appointment of Magistrate Joseph Apap Bologna on the anti-corruption body.

Frank Teuma said the magistrate played a part in his unjust conviction and should not form part of the Permanent Commission against Corrup-tion, which investigates corruption allegations.

In the judicial protest, filed against the Justice Minster and the Attorney General, he said he suffered a “grave injustice” when he was found guilty of drug importation when he had nothing to do with it.

In 1989, he said, drugs were often sent to a Gozo shop belonging to his brother, Peter Paul Teuma, who took the substances home.

Police had searched their house where they found various drugs, including 287 grams of cocaine packaged to be sold as well as cannabis seeds and items used to weigh and package drugs.

In June 2005 – 16 years after the case against the brothers started – Magistrate Apap Bologna acquitted Peter Paul Teuma of trafficking and put the blame on him, before he gave his version of events.

This case led to a miscarriage of justice in which Magistrate Apap Bologna played a part, he said.

Dr Leslie Cuschieri signed the protest.