Borg Olivier worried as Sandra Camilleri gets called in by Police, after his threatening meeting with PN councilor

PN councillor Sandra Camilleri will be visiting the police HQ in Floriana after Superintendent Paul Vassallo aggressively told her ninety-year-old mother over the phone to inform them where her daughter Sandra Camilleri could be found.

PN insiders told MaltaToday that Borg Olivier appears to be in close contact with the Police, especially after he contacted Sliema mayor Nikki Dimech soon after emerging from interrogation at the Police HQ, last Wednesday - when he admitted to having asked for an illegal commission on a council works contracts. "He could only have known after being informed by the police," the insider told MaltaToday.

Last Friday, PN secretary-general Paul Borg Olivier spent over an hour talking to Sandra Camilleri at the Lady Di pub in Sliema, threatening her into signing a declaration to impeach disgraced Sliema mayor Nikki Dimech, and warning her that if she did not, she would end up having to answer the police.  He did not specify about what.

Sliema Mayor and former Robert Arrigo canvasser Nikki Dimech had admitted to asking for a kickback on a council contract for public works, but close friends claim Dimech said he signed his admission under duress because he had been left without an asthma inhaler, while under interrogation. The Police claim he never asked for the inhaler, even though it was brought to the depot by a friend of his.

Last Friday Borg Olivier was ignorant of the fact that he was speaking to Sandra Camilleri in full view of third persons, he was filmed and recorded talking to the tearful  councllor.

At one point he was overheard telling Camilleri to choose between her mother or Sliema mayor Nikki Dimech ("jew ommok jew Nikki"), whereupon Sandra Camilleri signed the declaration and then broke down once again into tears.

The veiled threat shocked those inside the popular bar, who immediately relayed the mobile film and information to MaltaToday. Borg Olivier who has spoken in the past of a  compassionate and open party shocked many party activists with his abusive behaviour.

Sandra Camilleri's signature is required, together with that of PN councillor Paul Pace, who is away in Russia, for a motion to be passed  that will appoint Johanna Gonzi as mayor instead of Nikki Dimech.

Sources said Camilleri told her friends that she was scared to report to the Police -  "jaghmluli xi haga," - "They will do something to me," she said.

Sliema mayor Nikki Dimech was officially expelled from the PN last week, after Dimech informed secretary-general Paul Borg Olivier he had originally admitted to demanding a €5,000 kickback on a €25,000 council tender. 

But the expulsion appears to have been ordered in breach of the party statute that gives all PN members the ‘right to a fair trial’ by objecting to their expulsion.

According to the PN statute, before a decision is taken by either the executive committee or the administrative council, the PN members have “the right to be informed in writing of the date of the sitting when their expulsion is to be discussed, and to present themselves and offer the defence they deem suitable.”

When asked whether Dimech had been expelled by a vote taken by the PN executive committee, Borg Olivier told MaltaToday the decision to expel Dimech was “final and taken by the administration as a disciplinary measure subsequent to his communication with the Party that he admitted with the police of having solicited a bribe from a contractor in a tendering process.”

“Mr Dimech may have to answer to criminal charges when and if pressed. However, and in the circumstances, the PN Administration decided that his political position with the Party was no longer tenable, considering his declarations to the police.”
According to the PN statute, the party “does not consider as members” those who resign from the party, join other parties, or “act in such a way that the Executive Committee deems will prejudice the best interests of the PN.”

Only the executive committee can expel members or delegate this power to the administrative council.