Former Pilatus Bank risk manager Antoniella Gauci is asking for authorisation to intervene in proceedings where the NGO Repubblika is seeking to annul the Attorney General’s decision not to prosecute top officials at the now-shuttered bank, including Gauci herself.
The group is claiming that the AG’s decision was “null, invalid and ineffective” since it ran counter to the directions of the magistrate who had conducted the inquiry into suspected financial crimes at the bank.
Repubblika president Robert Aquilina has presented the courts with authenticated copies of documents from that magisterial inquiry showing that although international and European arrest warrants had been issued, no criminal action was taken against five targeted officials, one of whom was the bank’s former risk manager.
During the last sitting AG Victoria Buttigieg testified behind closed doors, arguing that the Maltese state is strictly bound by confidentiality under separate proceedings currently ongoing before an international tribunal.
Those foreign proceedings were secret and breaching that confidentiality would trigger negative repercussions for Malta, it was argued.
Gauci’s lawyer, Roberto Montalto,...
