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7 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 13 FEBRUARY 2022 NEWS 'Lucky' charm bullet leads to arrest TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IS A REWARDING CAREER TELT – The ELT Council has designed its own proficiency exam for prospective teachers in order to provide them with the minimum language proficiency certification. SEPTT - The Spoken English Proficiency Test for Teachers (SEPTT) is designed to ensure high levels of spoken English proficiency amongst English Language Teaching (ELT) practitioners working in a variety of international contexts. We are pleased to announce that TELT and SEPTT exam fees will remain free of charge throughout 2022 for prospective ELT teachers TELT info: https://eltcouncil.gov.mt/telt/ Apply for TELT: https://myexams.gov.mt/ SEPTT info: https://eltcouncil.gov.mt/septt-sessions/ SEPTT EXAMS ARE HELD MONTHLY. 1st Session: Saturday 12th March 2022 Application dates: from 7th to 18th February 2022. Application dates have been extended until 23rd February 2022. More info can be found at https://eltcouncil.gov.mt/telt/ 2nd Session: Saturday 16th July 2022 3rd Session: Saturday 22nd October 2022 TELT EXAM DATES MATTHEW AGIUS A woman's lucky charm proved to be the opposite after it land- ed her in court under arrest and earned her a €700 fine. Andrea Gocmanac, 34, from Serbia, was arraigned yesterday morning, having been arrested at the airport on Friday evening when security staff found her carrying a live round of ammuni- tion in her wallet. The round was detected on a scanner. Inspector Christian Abela charged Gocmanac with import- ing a prohibited munition and carrying it in a public place with- out a licence. The woman admit- ted the charges. Her legal aid, Charmaine Cher- rett, said her client carried the live .22 calibre round in her wal- let as a "good luck charm", and that Gocmanac had cooperated fully with the police and had not intended to break the law. Gocmanac was found guilty on her own admission and ordered to pay a €700 fine, payable over the span of three months. MATTHEW VELLA A €6 million claim by an inter- national art specialist could be headed for a settlement with Bank of Valletta, ahead of a court case in which the bank had been instructed to exhibit its manuals for its anti-money laundering procedures. The case was filed by art expert Pierre Amrouche, over a scam which funnelled some €6 million into a non-existent Libyan com- pany which had been set up by accountant Joe Sammut, a one- time Labour Party treasurer and candidate. Court sources told MaltaToday the case could be headed for a resolution between both parties. BOV's commercially sensitive documents were to be kept un- der lock and key by the judge, limiting access only to the law- yers of the parties with no copies to be made. Amrouche has accused BOV of having been negligent in its client due diligence after his manager Henri Baudet, used €6 million of his money to invest in a 'Libyan project' run by Belgian national Dirk Borgers and Tuni- sian national Maher Mellouli. The cash eventually passed through BOV accounts held by a host of companies set up in Mal- ta by Joe Sammut, for Mellouli. Baudet was later convicted of forgery and breach of trust by a Geneva court. A Maltese court also ordered him to re- turn €750,000 that had been processed via Maltese bank ac- counts. The BOV documents request- ed relate to client onboarding, client monitoring and suspicious transaction reporting. Amrouche insists the bank failed to honour its statutory obligations to report suspicious transactions, allowing bank ac- counts to be opened without carrying out the necessary due diligence. Mr Justice Robert Mangion up- held Amrouche's request for the manuals, saying that these were relevant evidence for the court to arrive at a decision, limiting it to the manuals in use between 2009 and 2011. €6 million Libya art scam: bank and dealer could settle