Malta’s Commander of the Armed Forces has issued what he describes as a “right of reply” following revelations that a staff sergeant was in a romantic relationship with a drug kingpin. Still, he has failed to reply to direct questions as to whether he was ever made aware of the relationship.
Lovin Malta revealed that Brigadier Jeffrey Curmi was aware of the relationship between criminal Raymond Caruana and Sgt. Carmen Pace, who was present at Caruana’s home when he was murdered in March 2015.
Pace, who had been fired from Malta’s Security Service in 2011 over a serious misdemeanour and reinstated to the army soon after, was never reprimanded for her relationship with one of Malta’s top criminals. Rather, she was promoted months after Caruana’s murder.