Live Breaking News & Updates on நிதி குற்றங்கள் விசாரணை துறை|Page 4
Stay updated with breaking news from நிதி குற்றங்கள் விசாரணை துறை. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Former superintendent arrested in connection with Daphne murder leaks 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.
Former Progress Press chairman Vince Buhagiar could not explain hundreds of thousands of euro he received from Keith Schembri, telling investigators that those were payments for consultancy services forming part of a “gentlemen’s agreement.” Buhagiar, who is pleading not guilty to money laundering offences, received amounts over US$134,000, US$105,000 and €50,000 from a Gibraltar-based company, Malmos Ltd, owned by Schembri. Details were disclosed on Tuesday by Inspector Ian Camilleri from the anti money laundering squad at the Financial Crimes Investigation Department when testifying in the ongoing compilation of evidence against Buhagiar. Buhagiar, who was granted bail upon being arraigned last month, sat in court as the witness divulged further details about an email traced by police from Schembri to a ‘VB’ concerning a transfer of US$35,000. ....
Konrad Mizzi lawyer mooted MSS deal for Hofstra over Theuma recordings Konrad Mizzi’s lawyer offered to negotiate with MSS over Theuma recordings taken by Dutch national 11 February 2021, 5:49pm by Nicole Meilak Jean Paul Sammut (right) and his conversation with Julian Hofstra, requesting sole legal representation. Sammut denied any link between this conversation and the interests of his client, Konrad Mizzi (left) The lawyer to former Labour minister Konrad Mizzi personally offered to negotiate some form of immunity with the Malta Security Services for Dutch inmate Julian Hofstra. Hofstra, 21, says he has recordings he made of Melvin Theuma, the middleman turned State witness in the Caruana Galizia assassination, whom he befriended at the white taxi stand he ran at the Portomaso Hilton sometime before 2019. ....
Keith Schembri is no longer on police bail in relation to an investigation linked to WhatsApp exchanges, his lawyer Edward Gatt said on Thursday afternoon. Gatt released a statement to the media just after exiting the police Financial Crimes Investigation Department in Santa Venera where he accompanied Schembri. The police informed us that Keith Schembri is no longer on police bail because the investigation has concluded, Gatt said, adding the investigation concerned various chats his client had with others. Schembri was until November 2019, the chief of staff at the Office of the Prime Minister. Last year, it was revealed that Schembri, Joseph Muscat and Yorgen Fenech had a WhatsApp group between them. ....
2020 saw Konrad Mizzi kicked out of the PL’s parliamentary group, a radical change in the top brass of the police force and the entire ‘Panama gang’ facing police questioning. But the year ends with government clashing with judges conducting a public inquiry on Caruana Galizia’s assassination and the PM putting Rosianne Cutajar’s political future in the hands of the Standards Commission. Are we any closer to the truth? In the space of a year Malta has seen the appointment of a new Prime Minister, a new leader of the Opposition, a new police commissioner, and a new State Advocate and Attorney General. ....