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MFSA, Police Force to collaborate on financial crime
A Memorandum of Understanding will facilitate collaboration between the two to combat financial crime
10 May 2021, 1:41pm
by Nicole Meilak
To strengthen the fight against financial crime, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) and the Malta Police Force have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formalise collaboration between the two entities.
The agreement, signed on Monday with immediate effect, is among several initiatives being taken up by the MFSA to establish cooperation with national and international stakeholders, according to the authority’s interim CEO Christopher Buttigieg.
“This MoU is part of our resolve to enhance levels of collaboration with key partners,” he said. “The agreement we have signed with the Malta Police Force reflects the determination of our institutions to combat financial crime, money laundering and the funding of terrorism.”
Maltese society is still waiting for all people involved in the Daphne Caruana Galizia assassination to face justice, a court has declared, as it rejected Yorgen Fenech’s latest request for bail.
With criminal investigations having reached “a very sensitive stage”, producing fresh evidence and targeting other persons of interest with potential links to the crime, the court again denied bail to the man accused of being behind the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Police Commissioner Angelo Gafà had declared on February 24 that, based on the evidence then, all suspects in the murder had been caught. But subsequent developments now appeared to show otherwise, the court said.
Soon after
Times of Malta published details about the people behind the secret company Macbridge, the police commissioner received two letters asking him to investigate.
One was from Prime Minister Robert Abela, referring to what
Times of Malta and Reuters had reported and asking the police chief “to ensure” all allegations were “immediately investigated”, unless that was already happening.
Police Commissioner Angelo Gafà also received a letter from Robert Aquilina, president of civil society movement
Repubblika, recalling that, in April 2018, the media had published an e-mail from Nexia BT’s Karl Cini showing that Macbridge would be forwarding millions of euros to companies owed by Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri.
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