Former Sliema mayor complains about ‘two weights and two measures’
Former Sliema mayor Nikki Dimech complained that “two weights and two measures” were being adopted to his detriment.
Speaking during a press conference in front of Castille, said that : "like he had been asked to resign on the basis of an allegations, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech, about whom serious allegations had also been made, should have been told never to return to the PN headquarters.”
He stressed that a statement made once by a police inspector who is prosecuting his case was being continuously repeated in the media.
Dimech, who is charged with soliciting a bribe from a contractor, said that his prosecutor had claimed in court that he (Dimech) had told him that he needed €5,000 to support his drug habit.
He stressed that he is “not corrupt” when asked by journalists to state if he was, adding: “if I was, I wouldn’t be employing 22 people.”
The disgraced PN mayor stressed that the police inspector “only made this statement once” however, “the media keeps repeating this,” adding that it was not true that he had ever told the police such a statement.
Dimech however, said that he would not be asking the police inspector to withdraw the statement when asked.
Nikki Dimech was expelled from the PN after he admitted in a police statement that he had asked for a bribe. He has since insisted that he had been coerced into making such a statement after suffering a panic attack due to asthma while in police custody and was not given access to his inhaler.
