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Court begins hearing a criminal complaint filed by Melvin Theuma against police commissioner for failing to investigate Yorgen Fenech for allegedly filing a false police report against him
Plans for a suspicious property deal involving former police superintendent Ray Aquilina, construction tycoon Joe Portelli, and murder suspect Yorgen Fenech are being investigated by the police.
Officers from the police’s anti-money laundering unit believe that a Birżebbuġa apartment worth in excess of €180,000 was set to be sold to Aquilina’s parents for around a third of its market value by Fenech in 2018.
The plan being investigated by police, was for the property to change hands for some €60,000.
Sources said the apartment was then to be donated to Aquilina by his parents in what police suspect may be a case of bribery and money laundering.
Police surveillance and intercepted phone calls back up suspicions that a former police superintendent leaked sensitive details of the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder investigation.
Sources said Ray Aquilina had been spotted walking into the Qormi office of Johann Cremona a number of times during police surveillance operations in the summer of 2019.
Cremona is a business associate of Yorgen Fench and is believed to have acted as an interlocutor between the alleged murder conspirator, self-confessed middleman Melvin Theuma, and former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri.
An ongoing investigation into suspected leaks is also understood to have secured damning phone intercepts that back up investigators’ theory that Aquilina was supplying parties to the murder with insider information.
Yorgen Fenech chats quoted in Daphne inquiry should not have been released
Lawyers to Yorgen Fenech write to the Daphne Caruana Galizia public inquiry, informing it that chats quoted by Therese Commodini Cachia had been restricted by the Criminal Court.
8 March 2021, 3:43pm
by Nicole Meilak
In a note to the inquiry board, Fenech’s lawyers noted that Therese Commodini Cachia quoted
verbatim Whatsapp chats between Yorgen Fenech and Marvin Gaerty, which had been found on Fenech’s mobile phone.
Tax commissioner Marvin Gaerty was testifying in front of the public inquiry board on 5 March when the incident happened.
Extractions from the phone were presented to the court during the compilation of evidence against Yorgen Fenech, and copies were passed on to all involved parties, including Commodini Cachia, who is appearing parte civile for the Caruana Galizia family.