There is a very simple mathematical and empirical rule that can be applied as a measure to determine the motivation of the Police to bring a criminal to justice. If a criminal case is of a serious nature that involves organised crime, the most efficient way to bring justice to the perpetrators of the crime is by prosecuting as much suspects as possible. In this way, you’d have a higher probability of gathering more evidence on any one charge, more probability that there will be more suspects getting broken and forced to speak and eventually, more chance of winning any one court case.
This is how John Rizzo used to address cases of a serious nature: by taking every suspect to court to squeeze out the highest possible amount of evidence, information, and jail time for suspects. Angelo Gafa knows this very well and he has applied this rule to the social-benefits fraud case and in fact, a lot of people have been broken by the case and confessed their crimes. Only that Angelo Gafa is applying this rule on a case which involves some of the weakest members of society. It’s easy to break people taking care of their children with severe disabilities who unwittingly defrauded the state because that was the only way they could get enough benefits to get by. Tough guy this Angelo Gafa is.
John Rizzo was a tough guy too, but at least he was tough indiscriminately with every organised criminal he encountered and didn’t make exceptions when his investigations led him to corrupt judges either: he came down on them with equal force. As for today’s major cases of corruption and crime involving politicians, Angelo Gafa applies very minimal force to these cases and prosecutes the least number of people possible.
Yorgen Fenech’s murder case of Daphne Caruana Galizia is a case in point. Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered for investigating the Electrogas project, and in this case, only the most obvious suspects have been charged in court: those who executed the murder and the one who commissioned them. Those who have actually benefited from the corruption of the Electrogas project itself have been allowed to get away with it, supposedly because Angelo Gafa doesn’t have the evidence. The result of failing or refusing to prosecuting other individuals who abetted and covered up Yorgen Fenech and those who benefited from his corruption serves as a great advantage to Yorgen Fenech.
Months ago, Angelo Gafa visited the offices of Lovin Malta and gave a statement in which he said that everything was fine and that “blogs” were smearing him. Joseph Muscat even issued an endorsement for Angelo Gafa, saying he has full confidence in him and that he is in trouble only because conspiratorial forces like Jason Azzopardi are influencing the police and the judiciary. I’m sure that he meant it, in the sense that Joseph Muscat is convinced that if we stay silent, Angelo Gafa will be less fored to do his job and will have more time to watch football on his big-screen in his villa.
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