Malta cooperated with OLAF in Dalli investigation

 Malta assisted OLAF - the EU anti-fraud office - in its investigations of allegations on John Dalli, the Office of the Prime Minister revealed today. Mr Dalli resigned his post of European Commissioner a week ago following allegations of trading in influence involving him and Sliema businessman Silvio Zammit. The Office of the Prime Minister disclosed the information in reply to questions sent by The Times after an interview with Mr Dalli. The newspaper asked when the Prime Minister found out about this investigation, how he came to know of it and what he did with the information from July up to the time the investigation findings were made public. The Office of the Prime Minister replied as follows: "On the 5th of July 2012 he (the Prime Minister) received information from the Cabinet Secretary Dr Godwin Grima that OLAF representatives were in Malta investigating a matter related to then Commissioner John Dalli. This information was communicated by AFCOS (Anti Fraud Coordinating Services - the Malta interlocutor of OLAF) to the Cabinet Secretary but no further details were made available. "At a later date the Cabinet Secretary updated the Prime Minister and...