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Unemployed couple arraigned over money laundering charges
20 May 2021, 7:44pm
by Matthew Agius
An unemployed young couple has been arraigned in court and made to answer money laundering charges after prosecutors allegedly noted that they owned a used Mercedes that did not tally with their income.
Before magistrate Monica Vella this afternoon, assisted by lawyers from the office of the Attorney General, police inspectors Paul John Farrugia and Robert Azzopardi charged Justin Farrugia and Marlene Dimech with money laundering offences.
Farrugia was unemployed after being boarded out and his girlfriend was pregnant and had a young child, the court was told.
A 42-year-old man was arraigned before the Gozo courts on Wednesday, accused of the murder of an Egyptian man who was shot twice in January 2018.
Aleksandr Stojanovic, a Serbian national who lives in Safi, pleaded not guilty to having murdered father-of-two Walid Salah Abdel Motaleb Mohammed, who was found dead in a remote field in Għarb, Gozo, on January 22, 2018.
The police said investigators had established that the accused was with the victim just hours before.
The victim was found lying on the ground with two shotgun wounds, one on the left side of the neck and the other in the centre of his chest.