‘They wanted to kill me and put me six feet under’ – John Dalli

On the program aired weekly on One TV, Former PN Minister John Dalli insisted that his 2004 resignation still has to be shouldered by political responsibility.

Zahra was commissioned by Dutch firm Simed, to investigate the award of a Mater Dei contract. His report was handed to the Prime Minister, who then gave the report to the Commissioner of Police to investigate. John Dalli said he was forced to resign, when the PM told him he "could not have a minister under investigation.”

Dalli claimed he never  in his life was under investigation.

Asked to comment if he  thinks whether the two weights and two measures system is being used, Dalli said that he does not want to make comparisons.

“All I’m saying that what was done to me was wrong and we cannot just simply say we found a person who conjured the whole report and jail him. Investigators have to ask: who used the report, who hired him who was the mastermind behind it all?”

 Zahra fabricated his ‘private investigator’s’ report implicating Dalli in a corruption scandal around a Mater Dei hospital tender. The report claimed meetings between the daughter of Joe Spiteri, the director of contracts, and the minister’s brother Sebastian Dalli, took place in Italy with an Inso director to collect a €2.3 million kickback.

“I came to know that the person behind the report had a contract with the company which wanted to win the machinery contract of San Raffaele,” Dalli said. “If the company would have managed to win the contract, he would be paid two million Euros.”

The now EU Commissioner also stressed the fact that the plan was not just to destroy his political career but also to make people believe that he could not be trusted.

“They wanted to kill me and bury me six feet under. They wanted me completely out of the Maltese political scenario, completely distrusted.”