GSD Reacts To Restriction Notice: “an attempt to side-step the Chairman of the Inquiry”
The GSD has reacted to the issuing of a Restriction Notice relating to the McGrail Inquiry.
The GSD has reacted to the issuing of a Restriction Notice relating to the McGrail Inquiry.
A statement from the GSD follows below:
The GSD has noted that the Government has placed online limited financial information in respect of some fifty five Government, Gibraltar Development Corporation (“GDC”) or Gibraltar Savings Bank controlled companies. The balance sheets, mostly draft and unaudited with no income statement, directors’ report or notes render the information of no value to the public nor provide any assurance.
Below follows the text of the Leader of the Opposition’s Political Broadcast which was aired on GBC yesterday evening:
What has unfolded over the last few weeks is very grave.
Mr Picardo who faces serious allegations about his conduct has, with his Government majority, passed a law which he can now use to protect himself in the very Inquiry investigating his conduct.
The Governement says it notes what it calls the “unsustainable excuses” deployed by Keith Azopardi and Charles Gomez while claiming that the Government has “uncovered their unsuccessful attempts to seek that Direct Rule be imposed on Gibraltar.”
The GSD has said that, “in his utter desperation to distract from the real issues” Mr Picardo is now resorting to “pure invention and misinformation.”