ATTORNEY GENERAL ORDERED TO TESTIFY ABOUT HER DECISION NOT TO ARREST PILATUS BANK OFFICERS

Pilatus Bank officers and directors

A Civil Court judge in Malta has ordered VICTORIA BUTTIGIEG, the country's controversial Attorney General, to testify regarding her decision not to prosecute the senior officers and directors of PILATUS BANK, notwithstanding a magistrate's order in 2021 to issue international and European arrests warrants agains them for money laundering. According to reliable sources, she issued two Nolle Prosequi findings, but has refused to disclose any details regarding who were the subjects of those decisions, nor to release the relevant documents to the public,

The court order was handed down in proceedings filed by reformist civil society NGO Repubblika, to require the AG  to cancel and annul her decision, and in addition to compel her to move forward against five senior Pilatus Bank officers, as well as former PM Chief of Staff KEITH SCHEMBRI. all of whom were ordered arrested last year by the magistrate judge. 

The Court ruled that the efforts by the Attorney General, to quash the summons to testify filed against her by Repubblika was not filed timely, and a number of additional grounds were also dismissed. Malta's Attorney General has repeatedly come under fire, with calls for her immediate resignation, after allegations that she is intentionally and deliberately interfering with the administration of justice ion the Pilatus Bank case.