PN MPs call out police commissioner for refusing to answer on Electrogas probe

The Nationalist Party has called out police commissioner Angelo Gafà for refusing to answer a parliamentary committee's questions about investigations into the Electrogas power station deal. 

Gafà was asked by PN members of the Public Accounts Committee whether the police force has started investigating the deal, following a report by the National Audit Office into the contract. 

In a press conference on Wednesday, PN PAC members Darren Carabott, David Agius and Graham Bencini said they had sent Gafà questions after Labour members blocked him from testifying before the committee.

They asked Gafà whether he or any police officer has summoned, questioned or investigated any MP or government official over an Auditor General report that found a number of shortcomings in the Electrogas deal.

They said that in a letter sent to them earlier this month, Gafà refused to answer the questions, saying that doing so would prejudice evidence related to a confidential investigation.

"The commissioner chose to repeat the government's political rhetoric. This was the same excuse that Labour MPs in the committee used to vote down his testimony," the PN members said.

They however noted that the...