A joint declaration by Jason Azzopardi and Adrian Delia denied that hundreds of messages were exchanged between the former opposition leader and murder suspect Yorgen Fenech.
Jacob Borg fact-checks the declaration.
No communication ‘of relevance’
When rumours about the existence of messages between Adrian Delia and Yorgen Fenech first surfaced last year, Delia’s first tactic was to prevaricate.
Delia told
Times of Malta in June there was no communication “of relevance” with Fenech after the businessman was linked to 17 Black and government corruption.
Prior to the Whatsapp revelations, Delia had insisted he had no communication of relevance with Yorgen Fenech post-17 Black.
Magistrate Rachel Montebello has ordered the prosecution of journalists for filing a story – for doing their job. They published a sordid picture: Joseph Cuschieri, former head of the Malta Gaming Authority and former CEO of the Malta Financial Services Authority, half-naked in an intimate embrace with bare-chested Yorgen Fenech, reclining on Fenech’s luxury yacht – both sticking their tongue out, taunting a nation.
Cuschieri, the regulator tasked with ensuring Fenech adhered to the rules, instead enjoyed the lavish hospitality of the accused. His intimacy with Fenech was starkly revealed in that jeering pose.
Fenech’s defence lawyers demanded action. Action is what they got from a servile judiciary. The magistrate ordered the prosecution of the authors of the
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Egrant, once claimed to belong to Joseph Muscat’s wife Michelle, was the companion Panama company to those owned by Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi. The claim was debunked by an inquiry but Egrant’s owner is still unknown.
Jacob Borg revisits the unsolved mystery.
As Labour swept to power in March 2013, Nexia BT, described recently in court testimony as a key cog in a money-laundering machine, was on a mission.
Having solidified links with the notorious Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca, Nexia BT went about buying three Panamanian shell companies from it over the summer of 2013.
Tillgate would eventually find a home with Keith Schembri. Hearnville was the shell entity chosen for Konrad Mizzi.
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