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WEDNESDAY • 4 DECEMBER 2019 • ISSUE 667 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
EDITORIAL • PAGE 9
NEWS
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MEPs 'unconvinced'
at Muscat meeting,
but praise police
investigators
Has the
Grinch stolen
Christmas?
Cabinet ministers' rage over
Schembri's involvement
Police were sloppy with Chief-of-Staff
MATTHEW VELLA
CABINET ministers who grilled
Malta's Commissioner of Police and
the lead investigator in the Daphne
Caruana Galizia investigation were
"furious" to learn that Joseph Mus-
cat's chief of staff Keith Schembri was
not given a thorough interrogation.
Multiple sources who spoke to Mal-
taToday about last Thursday's Cabi-
net meeting said ministers, especially
those who are lawyers, were enraged
at learning that Schembri was not
questioned thoroughly on the con-
tents of a letter he is believed to have
passed on to suspect Yorgen Fenech,
through the Tumas family doctor
Adrian Vella.
Joseph Muscat was not present in-
side the room when the meeting was
taking place, to discuss the request by
Tumas magnate Yorgen Fenech to be
granted a presidential pardon to turn
state's evidence.
Additionally, ministers learnt that
there had been "heavy traffic" of mes-
saging between Fenech and Schembri
the day before the millionaire's at-
tempted escape aboard his luxury
yacht.
Keith Schembri
Yorgen
Fenech:
Schembri
made
'considerable
efforts' to
stop him
passing
information
to police
