Rogue oil trader George Farrugia’s legal team is not alarmed by the Prime Minister’s statement that would not exclude the possibility of withdrawing their client’s presidential pardon.

The lawyers noted that what the Prime Minister said on TVM’s Dissett on Thursday was “legally correct”.

“The Prime Minister was legally correct because the pardon came with a number of conditions and, if these are not respected, a procedure will kick in to have it withdrawn. The comment doesn’t mean anything, really, because you cannot exclude something that should never be excluded,” said Siegfried Borg Cole and Franco Debono when contacted yesterday.

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