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Minister Carmelo Abela has filed a late night defamation lawsuit on Friday which demands that Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi should answer for his claims that link to the 2010 HSBC bank heist. Abela, who was a former HSBC employee at the time, has repeatedly denied these claims. Abela claimed in an affidavit that Azzopardi directly alluded to him being an accomplice as a reaction to the minister’s earlier Facebook post.
Azzopardi made the allegation through a Facebook post by stating that he was ‘no saint […] but better not to have been an accomplice in the HSBC hold-up. Abela was placed on spot by the Nationalist Party media over Vincent Muscat il-Kohhu’s claims about being the sitting MP involved in the heist. Azzopardi also claimed that Abela was promised €300,000, with Abela reacting to the claims as being ‘criminally slanderous.’
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