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Arnold Cassola s Egrant Labour funding request cannot be probed by Electoral Commission
A Constitutional Court ruling found the Political Party Financing Act to be in breach of the Constitution
11 May 2021, 3:09pm
by Nicole Meilak
Independent election candidate Arnold Cassola requested an investigation by the Electoral Commission into Egrant Labour funding claims
The Electoral Commission cannot investigate rumours that the secretive Panamanian company Egrant was used as a financial vehicle for illicit Labour Party donations.
Particular violations where found with respect to the issuing of fines when one has pursued an illicit arrangement to facilitate making donations to a political party. The court ruled that the Commissioner could not act as investigator, judge and jury on political party financing investigations.
Cassola asks Electoral Commission to probe Egrant Labour funding claim
Independent candidate Arnold Cassola asks Electoral Commission to probe speculation that E-Grant may have been a reference to ‘election grant’ and a financing vehicle for the Labour Party
8 April 2021, 10:47am
by Kurt Sansone
Arnold Cassola has asked the Electoral Commission to investigate whether the Panama company Egrant may have been a financing vehicle for the Labour Party.
The independent election candidate said that in a recent Facebook post, Joseph Muscat’s former chief of staff Keith Schembri referred to the company as E-Grant.
“This strengthens the impression that this secret company was set up as a fund-raising vehicle for the Labour Party, namely ‘Election Grant’,” Cassola wrote.