Police claim their investigation into the shuttered Pilatus Bank is still “ongoing”, with the bank’s top brass having so far avoided prosecuti
Obituaries
BROOK. In Portsmouth, UK, LENA, née Gatt, aged 94, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss
Two Progress Press officials facing fraud and money laundering charges made no personal financial gains from the allegedly fraudulent application filed for a grant from Malta Enterprise, a police inspector testified on Monday.
Leanne Bonello, from the police anti-money laundering squad, told the court that after carefully analysing financial statements belonging to Progress Press managing director Michel Rizzo and former financial controller Claude Licari, the police found nothing to prove any financial gain.
She explained how in Rizzo’s case, there was a €4,500 incoming transaction which he could not explain but which the police did not pursue as there were no suspicions.
The following are the main stories in Tuesday’s newspapers.
Times of Malta leads with a story saying that the police have called in a number of people fo