A judge is expected to rule next week whether the bosses of French bank BNP Paribas can refuse to appear in court in Malta to testify in a €1 billion anti-semitism lawsuit filed by a Maltese investment house and its founder, Malta-based businessman Jacob Agam. Mr Justice Joseph Zammit McKeon had already ordered the chairman and the CEO of the bank to appear in court to testify, but they resisted the order, arguing that they could not be forced to come to Malta to testify. Malta-based businessman Jacob Agram In a sitting scheduled for Thursday next week, the judge is expected to rule whether to enforce his order, issued last August, with the possibility of escalating it to a warrant of arrest if the pair failed to appear.