In the Press: Anti-money laundering agency had warned about Panama

Times of Malta

The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit – the government agency tasked with combatting money laundering – had issued circulars to local finance firms, warning that Panama was a “high-risk and non0cooperative jurisdiction”. The circulars were issued in 2014, before energy minister Konrad Mizzi and the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Keith Schembri each set up companies in Panama.

In-Nazzjon

PN deputy leader Beppe Fenech Adami told a press conference that the public is outraged and disgusted at the Panamagate scandal and the manner in which Joseph Muscat has wholeheartedly defended Mizzi and Schemrbi.

L-Orizzont

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told a working lunch at the Labour HQ that he is in favour of introducing same-sex marriage and that the time is ripe for a national debate on the topic.

The Malta Independent

E-Cubed Consultants, whose director is leading economist Gordon Cordina, have pulled out of a planned merger with Nexia BT over the finance firm’s role in the Panamagate scandal.