Dr Karol Aquilina.

The Labour Party asked on Tuesday whether PN leader Adrian Delia would act against MP Karol Aquilina, who, it said, had attacked the Egrant inquiry conducted by Magistrate Aron Bugeja.

Dr Delia had spoken about the seriousness of the inquiry and the magistrate's integrity, the PL said. Would, he, therefore, act against Dr Aquilina? This was yet another test as to whether the PN was changing in an effort to be credible.  

The PL said Dr Delia also needed to make his predecessor Simon Busuttil assume responsibility for being part 'of the biggest political frame-up'. 

In a blogpost, Dr Aquilina wrote that one must not make the mistake of taking the inquiry as gospel truth. Most certainly, there are other witnesses and evidence which the magistrate had not yet discovered or failed to identify.

"The recent news that Jacqueline Alexander of Mossack Fonseca fame was denied bail by a Panama Court and detained as part of an investigation into organised crime and money laundering is a major development in this saga. In any properly functioning justice system found in the civilized world, this development would on its own lead to the reopening of the inquiry," he wrote.

Part of the inquiry findings were based on a conclusion that Jacqueline Alexander's signatures on documents at the core of the Egrant inquiry were forged.