State witness Melvin Theuma is testifying in the compilation of evidence against Yorgen Fenech on Tuesday
The wealthy businessman is accused of conspiring to murder journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a car bomb on October 16, 2017.
Earlier a Europol expert took to the stand. It is not the first time the EU law enforcement agency has testified in the case - last year its data extraction experts testified about data from what was dubbed Operation Blue Elephant .
The sitting comes weeks after Fenech made his latest bail request - the eighth since he was arraigned in November 2019.
The accused was last in court in April, when the deputy attorney general outlined an alleged escape plan that would have seen Fenech sail from Malta to Sicily and on to Nice.
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The defamation suit filed by Minister Carmelo Abela against PN MP Jason Azzopardi over allegations linking the minister to the 2010 HSBC failed heist will be contested, court was told on Monday.
Last month Azzopardi claimed that Abela allegedly aided the mastermind behind the attempted HSBC bank heist for a €300,000 payment from the loot.
The accusation came days after Abela denied any involvement in the heist that ended in a violent shoot-out, describing any links to him as stories, fairytales and inventions .
When the case was called on Monday morning, Abela’s lawyer Pawlu Lia, informed Magistrate Rachel Montebello that Azzopardi’s lawyer had sought his consent for a deferment of the case, so as to file a reply to the minister’s claims.
Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi has been awarded €1,000 in libel damages over allegations made on Facebook that the politician used to meet “a working girl at Portomaso.”
Azzopardi had filed a defamation suit following the Facebook post uploaded by Vincent Borg, known as Censu l-Iswed, last August at a time when rival PN factions regularly posted comments in the run-up to the party leadership race.
That post consisted of a set of 13 questions, one of which addressed to “the Honourable Jason Azzopardi,” implying that the politician, branded as one of the “rebel” anti-Delia group, used to meet a prostitute at the St Julian’s hotel.