A magistrate has been asked to investigate a husband’s alleged plot to have his wife killed.
In documents filed in court on Friday, the woman claims to h
A serious story about Nationalist Party MP Jason Azzopardi will soon emerge and expose him as a hypocrite, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Wednesday as he slammed the Opposition MP.
Abela said Azzopardi had made claims in parliament about government bullying and intimidation to try and deflect attention from a serious problem that he would soon face.
Azzopardi told parliament on Tuesday that a top level inland revenue official was arrested without reason in 2013 in order to pressure him to resign. He alleged that principal permanent secretary Mario Cutajar had used his influence to intimidate the official.
Cutajar has denied the allegations, while Azzopardi has challenged him to sue him.
Azzopardi claims frame-up of tax official by civil service head and former police chief
In House speech, Jason Azzopardi claims Mario Cutajar had tax official arrested to force him to resign post, with connivance of former police chief
2 March 2021, 7:18pm
by Nicole Meilak
Jason Azzopardi claims that (from top to bottom) Principal Permanent Secretary Mario Cutajar, former police commissioner Peter Paul Zammit and Robert Abela were involved in framing a tax official back in April 2013
The Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi has alleged a frame-up of a former tax official, by none other than the Principal Permanent Secretary Mario Cutajar and ex-Police Commissioner Peter Paul Zammit.
Top-level public official was arrested to force him out, MP claims timesofmalta.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesofmalta.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A man with very poor eyesight and restricted mobility has denied firing a weapon during a heated argument at Cospicua on Wednesday.
Carmel Calleja, 55, had to be physically guided into the courtroom and to his place at the dock, during his arraignment on Friday.
The man, who described himself as unemployed owing to his poor vision, pleaded not guilty to being in possession of a firearm whilst allegedly committing a crime against the person, firing the weapon in an inhabited area, breaching the peace, uttering obscenities in public, threatening and insulting his victims as well as relapsing.
The violent incident took place on Wednesday evening, between 8pm and 9.15pm, on Triq id-Dejqa, when an argument allegedly broke out between the accused and two foreign men, apparently brothers.