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TRUTH IS OF NO COLOUR WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT/COVID19 SUNDAY • 16 MAY 2021 • ISSUE 1124 • PUBLISHED SUNDAY AND WEDNESDAY maltatoday This informaaon campaign was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Cohesion policy funds were redirected towards COVID-relief measures to support our health system, aid SMEs and save jobs. Discover more on OUREU.MT #ourEU #CohesionFunds PAGES 2-3 ABORTION It's the conservatives who must answer 10-11 Yas Queen! Bring it back home Destiny Eurovision odds PAGE 5 ON THAT PINK DRESS KURT SANSONE POLICE are investigating claims that minister Carmelo Abela was an accomplice in the failed heist on HSBC Bank's main office 11 years ago, Malt- aToday has learnt. The new investigation started after Abela was publicly linked by Nationalist MP Jason Azz- opardi to allegations made by Daphne Caruana Galizia hit- men Vince Muscat and Alfred Degiorgio. The minister, who at the time of the heist worked as a senior insurance and statistics officer within the bank's Department of Security, Health and Safety, has denied any involvement and initiated libel proceedings against Azzopardi. Muscat, known as il-Koħħu, and Daren Debono, known as it-Topo, are awaiting trial for their involvement in the daring Police investigating claims that Abela was accomplice in HSBC heist HSBC heist Claims by Caruana Galizia triggerman that minister was implicated in 2010 robbery heist that ended in a shootout with police. A third person, Fabio Psaila, is also awaiting trial. Sources told MaltaToday that the prosecuting inspector wrote to Judge Giovanni Grixti on 5 May, asking that the Po- lice Commissioner be given a copy of the testimony Abela gave behind closed doors dur- ing the compilation of evidence against Muscat and Debono. Grixti is expected to preside over the trial of the pair when this is appointed. In the note seen by MaltaTo- day, Inspector Joseph Mercieca told the judge that following recent allegations involving Carmelo Abela, a witness in the case, the police opened a new investigation. €1.95 2 Josanne Cassar MT2 "Can liberals be a bit more tolerant about divergent views on a dress?" MARLENE FARRUGIA INTERVIEW MT2 True Stories Liza Caruana Finkel MT2 ADPD support Farrugia Bill PG 4 Dogged by serious allegations: Carmelo Abela, one of the more unassuming of Labour ministers, is caught up in an allegation by convicted criminal Vincent Muscat that he had been an accomplice in the HSBC heist of 2010, when the then Labour MP wokred inside the bank's department of security