Whenever someone goes to the bank or to the broker to deposit a few thousand euros in cash in one’s own account, they are invariably asked to prove the origin of that cash.

The leader of the Opposition, Adrian Delia, has managed to pay off his outstanding debt with the income-tax authorities – in cash – to the tune of €130,000 in two installments within one month. Pressed by journalists to divulge the provenance of all that cash – with the initial payment being made precisely one week after the Nationalist Party’s fund-raising marathon – his sole reply was that he had been owed money by clients.

This argument does not really wash. I am morally convinced that all this money is money given to him by the PN, partly in advance as ‘salary’, which, I still remember, Delia had said he would receive once the party was able to afford paying him a salary, but which he does not want to confirm because previous PN leaders did not receive a salary.