The latest sitting in the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder case has been postponed after suspect Yorgen Fenech was too unwell to attend court.
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State witness Melvin Theuma is testifying in the compilation of evidence against Yorgen Fenech on Tuesday
The wealthy businessman is accused of conspiring to murder journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a car bomb on October 16, 2017.
Earlier a Europol expert took to the stand. It is not the first time the EU law enforcement agency has testified in the case - last year its data extraction experts testified about data from what was dubbed Operation Blue Elephant .
The sitting comes weeks after Fenech made his latest bail request - the eighth since he was arraigned in November 2019.
The accused was last in court in April, when the deputy attorney general outlined an alleged escape plan that would have seen Fenech sail from Malta to Sicily and on to Nice.
Former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri had sent one of the prime minister’s security officials to “calm down” murder middleman Melvin Theuma
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.