Democratic Party leader Anthony Buttigieg filed an application on Wednesday 2requesting the Magistrates’ Court to take possession of data handed over to the local police force by German authorities in relation to the Panama Papers scandal.

Following recent reports that some three terabytes of data, collected by German investigators from the Mossack Fonseca server, was to be or had been handed over to the Maltese police authorities, the Democratic Party sought recourse before the courts requesting that such data be handed over to the magistrate conducting the relative inquiry.

This sensitive information could be relevant to the magisterial inquiry into allegations of kickbacks from the cash for passports scheme involving Keith Schembri, the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff.

Lawyer Joseph Giglio signed the application.

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