The people who were at the centre of an e-mail controversy in the run-up to the Divorce Referendum this afternoon denied a claim by Joseph Muscat that one of them had leaked their e-mails. In yesterday’s edition of Bondi Plus, Dr Muscat, in reply to a question relating to private emails that were published by It-Torca on April 10, stated that these were leaked (rather than having been stolen from a computer system).
"We - Andre Camilleri, Fr. Joe Borg, Ray Baldacchino, Lawrence Zammit and Arthur Galea Salomone, ex-members of Moviment Zwieg Bla Divorzju, categorically deny that the e-mails which were published by it-Torca were leaked by any one of us," the officials said.
"On the contrary these e-mails, which were our private property, were stolen in an illicit manner and ended up being published by it-Torca and Malta Today and broadcast by One TV and One Radio. "We are of the opinion that Dr Muscat should provide to the Police any information he may have as to how stolen e-mails ended up in the hands of it-Torca, One TV and One Radio."
During yesterday's programme, programme host Lou Bondi observed that while Dr Muscat was complaining about the publication of his e-mail correspondence with RTK journalist Sabrina Agius, he had not raised such qualms when e-mails related to the BWSC contract and the divorce referendum were similarly published.
But Dr Muscat drew a distinction between e-mails which were stolen from a computer system and others which were leaked, and he implied that one of the persons involved in the anti-divorce campaign had leaked their e-mails because he could no stand what was taking place. He also denied that the BWSC e-mails were stolen and invited Mr Bondi' to investigate how they had reached the Opposition. The e-mails published during the divorce campaign discussed the strategy to be adopted by the 'No' camp, including the use of children in the campaign.