Court decision on publication of Egrant inquiry report due on May 14

A judge is to decide on May 14 whether to order the Attorney General to provide the Leader of the Opposition with a full copy of the Egrant inquiry report.

The inquiry was concluded at the end of July by Magistrate Aaron Bugeja but no information has been given other than a summary issued in a press statement by the Attorney General and a press conference given by the prime minister. The AG had said that the inquiry found that there was no evidence that the prime minister or his wife owned the secret Panama company known as Egrant.

Opposition leader Adrian Delia has since been calling for the full report to be published. 

In final submissions on Monday before the constitutional court, Dr Vincent Galea, representing Dr Delia, objected to a claim made by the Attorney General in written submissions that while NGOs and  investigative journalists may have a right for such information for their investigations, EU jurisprudence never made a mention of such a right for the  leader of the opposition.

EU jurisprudence only mentioned journalists and NGOs because there never was a case anywhere where this type of information was not handed to the leader of the opposition, Dr Galea said.

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