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The elephant in the room

The elephant in the room: Attoreny-General Victoria Buttigieg

One of the biggest questions still lingering after the 2019 political crisis is why Victoria Buttigieg? Last week Philip Galea Farrugia, a past contender for the post of Attorney-General and also a lawyer in the AG office has testified in court saying that not all suspects of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder have been arraigned in court.

Victoria Buttigieg is being called to resign by NGO Repubblika and the Nationalist Party after she made a botched deal with an alleged criminal who was supposed to testify against further accomplices in the HSBC heist and whom Jason Azzopardi is claiming to be Labour MPs.

Victoria Buttigieg was deputy to Attorney General Peter Grech during the Joseph Muscat administration. In her role back then she had signed away Konrad Mizzi’s executive power which bypassed parliament to sign the Electrogas deal, and also defended the role of the corrupt cop and husband to Justyne Caruana, Silvio Valletta in Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder investigation.

There’s also a very interesting aspect to this story. Philip Galea Farrugia is being attacked in public by the acolytes of Yorgen Fenech who are waging a misinformation war on his behalf.

However, actions speak louder than words so don’t take my word for it. Victoria’s Buttigieg’s inaction has been startling. As of now, no current or previous minister or member of the Joseph Muscat administration has been arraigned in court over corruption charges.

Meanwhile, as the inaction is prolonged further, the window of the benefit of the doubt on the AG and the Police Commissioner is closing soon as the anger of many citizens to this inaction keeps growing.


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  1. […] impunity. The attorney-general who holds a degree of influence over who gets prosecuted and not is a previous fixture of the Joseph Muscat criminal system – not as an active participant of his clique, but as a loyal bureaucrat who forced his will, […]

  2. […] and I wonder why anyone would expect otherwise given that her past actions are all consistent with covering up corrupt politicians. And Labour is very clear and explicit in its aim to cover up corruption, just as they try to […]

  3. […] The attorney-general is only trusted by the government. She is not trusted by the police. She is not trusted by the lawyers. She isn’t even trusted by the judiciary and has had her work criticised and slammed on a regular basis by the judiciary. Civil society does not trust her either. Today, the Times of Malta editorial has called for her resignation too. […]

  4. […] fraudulent arguments on her “independence” to back her up. But in reality, we know that she never was independent and always did the bidding of criminals, so why should we expect her to be independent today? And […]

  5. […] his friends from prosecution mainly by instituting corrupt bureaucrats at the right places such as Attorney-General Victoria Buttigieg. Then there is the year’s-long inaction by the police as the Times of Malta keeps publishing […]

  6. […] this has pleased her masters and she knows that this is what got her promoted in the first pace. Victoria Buttigieg will keep paying a very a chose attention to what her masters want from her and act accordingly: […]

  7. […] attorney-general, Victoria Buttigieg has far failed to prosecute any Maltese politician from Joseph Muscat’s administration with […]

  8. […] attorney-general, Victoria Buttigieg has far failed to prosecute any Maltese politician from Joseph Muscat’s administration with […]

  9. […] and institutions that are supposed to wage war against organised crime, namely the Police and the Attorney-General. The systematic dysfunction in the Police Force has led to many resignations but this dysfunction […]

  10. […] On this matter, I have been reminded that the personal assistant of the Attorney General herself, Victoria Butti?ie?, is Michelle Muscat’s sister, Marika […]

  11. […] watch this video and contemplate his future because apparently, he thinks, like Attorney General Victoria Butti?ie? they can get away with covering up for organised crime and plunging the country deeper into a rule […]

  12. […] in the post of Attorney General but was passed over for the corrupt and horribly incompetent Victoria Buttigieig. A couple of years ago, Philip Galea Farrugia made his thoughts quite public in a Facebook post […]

  13. […] have already captured most of the state: they have the Police, the Attorney-General, the public broadcaster, and most of the government departments and entities, and now they want to […]

  14. […] In this the period in which Labour Party politicians or former politicians enjoy immunity from the law despite daily revelations of their corruption, it is important to continue following and documenting why and how the relevant authorities are allowing this impunity, namely the Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa and the Attorney-General Victoria Buttigieg. […]

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