Joseph Muscat has complained about unfair treatment and demanded an investigation into how information that his house was being searched by the police was leaked. In a Facebook video, the former Labour prime minister also argued that former Pilatus Bank employee Maria Efimova was being treated differently to him and appeared to rule out a return to politics, saying he would work "out of the limelight". The Muscat family home in Burmarrad was searched by police officers last week, as part of an inquiry into a deal to privatise three state hospitals that was concluded during Muscat’s time in charge. Officers confiscated documents and mobile phones from Muscat and his family during the search, with Muscat saying he was particularly upset that the police had searched his two daughters’ schoolbags and seized their phones. That, he said on Saturday, was “excessive.” Muscat complained that Repubblika president Robert Aquilina had been tipped off about the search as it was underway, and said Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi was talking about the raid days before it happened. “Having people involved in the inquiry know what is happening in it raises doubts in people’s minds (about it),”...
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