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Theuma pardon includes 2010 HSBC heist
Middleman was granted pardon for a host of other major crimes, among them to provide information on the 2010 HSBC heist
23 May 2021, 8:50am
by Matthew Vella
The middleman in the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia was granted a pardon for what could have been an indirect role in the heist of the HSBC bank in 2010.
Melvin Theuma is believed to have put up one of his properties as a safehouse for the men involved in the shoot-out with police, in what was a daring heist on the HSBC security vault in Qormi.
Theuma’s role in the heist is included as one of several major crimes for which he was pardoned, MaltaToday has learnt, in return for any information he had on the heist.
What connects the daring heists that targeted HSBC and accused?
KURT SANSONE asks what connects a series of four heists that took place between 2007 and 2010
20 May 2021, 8:02am
by Kurt Sansone
Vince Muscat is waiting for his trial appointment for his involvement in a daring heist on HSBC headquarters in 2010 that ended in a shootout with police.
But the failed hold-up was only the most audacious in a string of high profile hits carried out by the same criminal gang over the span of a few years.
In December 2010, lawyer David Gatt was charged with being the mastermind of this gang and faced accusations of criminal association in the four cases listed below.
• Witness had confirmed suspicion of inside job
OPM minister Carmelo Abela is facing a fresh police investigation into claims he was one of the inside men