Updated - Dalli: This was a plan of entrapment, company denial

John Dalli, the former EU Health Commissioner, has provided some details of two meetings mentioned yesterday by Giovanni Kessler, the director general of the EU's anti-fraud office (Olaf). He also claimed that what was happening showed a plan of entrapment against him - a claim which was promptly denied by Swedish Match, the company which raised the whole issue with the European Commission. Mr Dalli said he attempted to send this reply via e-mail yesterday, but was unsuccessful. In the e-mail, he says he met a Snus lobbyist in 2010 and an unnamed Maltese lawyer in 2012. He says these were the meetings Mr Kessler referred to as the one centring around his investigation. He also implies that the meetings were organised by businessman Silvio Zammit. However, yesterday morning, Mr Dalli said Mr Zammit "never asked me for any meeting with these people". He was referring to Snus lobbyists, who he claims attempted to "bribe" Mr Zammit in March by asking him how much he would charge to set up an informal meeting. In today's reply he qualifies his statement, saying it was the offer made in March that was "never communicated" to him. The e-mail he was referring to was sent by the European...