Former OPM official Neville Gafà has been cleared of threatening Avvenire journalist Nello Scavo on social media last summer, with a court declaring that the facts were “not at all convincing”.
Criminal proceedings against Gafà stemmed from a tweeted exchange on June 27 in a reaction to an initial message by NGO Alarm Phone announcing that 95 migrants at sea had been intercepted by “Europe’s Libyan allies,” and “returned to a war zone”.
That message had prompted Gafà to comment, “You better stop your dirty business…”
Scavo, a vocal critic of Malta’s handling of the migration crisis, had tweeted back, “dirty business, dirty oil, dirty agreement by governments. Anything to say about this dirty ways”?
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about it.
Macbridge was named as a source of funds for his company without his knowledge.
• He set up a Panama company to move his business out of Malta, after hearing that details about a
trust he had set up with BOV had been leaked to the PN.
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• He has
other offshore structures in England and Cyprus, as well as bank accounts in the British Virgin Islands.
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• He planned to do
• He had nothing to do with the
Vitals hospital deal.
• He had
emailed in his resignation in 2016 as he was seriously ill, but was roped back into government.
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