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Għarb mayor resigns after usury charges
Newspaper Illum had revealed the court proceedings last Sunday.
20 December 2013, 12:00am
James J. Piscopo
James J. Piscopo
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David Apap Agius served as Gharb mayor for the past 16 years.
David Agius Apap has announced his resignation from Għarb mayor, a post he held uninterruptedly for the past sixteen years.
Last Sunday, sister newspaper Illum revealed that Apap Agius would be arraigned in court next February, facing charges of usury and money-laundering.
In a short statement sent this evening to the press, Apap Agius said he will resign from mayor and from the Nationalist Party, and will only keep his seat as an independent councillor.
“In light of recent articles which appeared in the media, I am resigning to defend better my case and refrain from tarnishing my party’s reputation. Allegations which were made by a person acting in a malicious way aimed to bring me down,” Apap Agius said in the statement.
For the past days, Illum was asking for the PN’s official position on this case, to no avail.
The case of usury started in 2006 and went on for three years. The sums of money involved allegedly amount to hundreds of thousands.
Illum said that it was informed that the usury victim had to change his place of residence in the past months, after he received several threats to drop the charges against Apap Agius.
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That is fine, one must consider him innocent until proved otherwise. If and when proved guilty he should also renounce his council seat. Going independent does not sound good as it shows that even his party the PN has its doubts about him when considering the great lengths the PN went to protect PC Taliana and Norman Vella. Even amongst themselves PN use two weights and two measures.
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Ghaziz 'mignun', jien smajt lill- Imhallef Bonello jghid li avukat ghandu id-dover li ma jikxifx lil klijent tieghu; anzi ikun qed jikser il- ligi jekk avukat jikxef x'ghid il- klijent tieghu. Dejjem hekk sar u l-avukati Nazzjonalisit dejjem 'giddieba' bhal Mallia kienu vis a vis il- klijenti taghhom.
Nihassar lill- partitarji Nazzjonalisit bhalek li jibilghu kollox dak li jghidu l-avukati nazzjonalisti. Iva l-avukati Nazzjonalisit jitne.ku bikom ghax kieku ma jghidux il- kliem li int bhal pappagal qed tirrepeti fuq Mallia.
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Sur Kukkanja,
Mhux ahjar tistaqsi lil siehbek l-avukat Mallia tal-gideb li qal quddiem il-gurnalisti u quddiem il-poplu kollu li ma kienx jaf bit-tihxim li kien ghaddej mill-klijenti tieghu stess! Shame
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In-Net Tv aktar ma jgahaddi iz-zmien qisu sar talk show ta Norman Vella! In-Net wehlitlu il-labra ghal x'hin gie biex jaghti ir-raguni ghala dan l-imbierek Nazzjonalist irrezenja. Stahbew u ma qalux xejn fuq l-usuara!Din hi l- bidla ta Simon: bl-istess nies, bl-istess gideb u bl-istess hdura?
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He should also resign from a counsellor. How can the people ever have any faith in him with such charges?
