Civil Society Network is preoccupied with Minister Edward Scicluna’s attitude in respect of the very important questions put forward to him by the Network lately and which were subsequently asked to the Minister by MP Simon Busuttil in the House of Representatives and by The Shift News in an article published last Thursday on its news platform.
The Network reminds Minister Scicluna that the position he holds has the sole and exclusive purpose of being of service to the Maltese and therefore it is imperative that the Minister gives a proper account of his activities and of the practices followed by the entities which fall under his responsibility.
Therefore, the Civil Society Network is once again asking the Minister of Finance to inform the public:
(i) whether he was ever involved in a conversation (whether in person or by means of any other form of communication) with any member of the Board of Governors or with any official or employee of the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit or with any member of the Police Force where the former Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit officials Jonathan Ferris and Charles Cronin or any one of them were mentioned:
(ii) whether he ever received from any member of the Board of Governors or from any official or employee of the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit or from any member of the Police Force any communication in which the former FIAU officials Jonathan Ferris and Charles Cronin or any one of them were/was mentioned; and
(iii) whether he ever requested (whether directly or indirectly) from any member of the Board of Governors or from any official or employee of the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit or from any member of the Police Force any information in relation to former FIAU officials Jonathan Ferris and Charles Cronin or any one of them; and
(iv) if such conversation/s and communication and/or request took place, whether such conversation and/or communication and/or request took place before or after Jonathan Ferris and Charles Cronin were informed that their employment with FIAU was being terminated and the name and surname of the person/s with whom such conversion and/or communication took place or to whom the said request was made.
It is vital for Malta to establish the truth with regard to the resignations of Police Commissioner Michael Cassar and FIAU Director Manfred Galdes and with regard to the termination of employment of FIAU officials Jonathan Ferris and Charles Cronin. A lack of will to do this would mean that Institutional Omerta’ exists in Malta.
