Calls for AG resignation after ‘go slow’ warning on Panama Papers investigation

Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi, who is also the lawyer for the Caruana Galizia family, yesterday requested the resignation or removal of Attorney General Peter Grech after it was revealed in court that he had advised, in writing, the police “to go slow” on the Panama Papers investigation.

Azzopardi was referring to testimony that was given yesterday in the public inquiry on the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Writing on Facebook, Azzopardi said a police file from the Economic Crimes Unit shows there’s “a written advice by Dr Peter Grech warning Police to go slow on (Panama Papers) investigation as it will cause trouble in the country!”

The advice was given, according to Azzopardi, in 2016, when the Panama Papers scandal broke.

It had then been revealed that Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri had opened companies in Panama.

In another post, Azzopardi said that “The Attorney General has to resign or asked to resign today. Robert Abela has to choose: either be an accomplice in the culture of impunity which has killed Daphne and thus defend the AG, or do the right thing and formally ask him to resign. If not, the Opposition will do what must be done.”

None of those mentioned in the Panama Papers revelations have as yet been investigated or charged.