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WEDNESDAY • 25 OCTOBER 2023 • ISSUE 866 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
EDITORIAL • PAGE 13
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garnishee
order against
Maltese firms
KARL AZZOPARDI
THE police have issued charges
against at least six people over the
death of 83-year-old St Vincent De
Paul resident Carmelo Fino last year.
Sources who spoke to this news-
paper said charges have been issued
against several staff members work-
ing at the elderly home. MaltaToday
is informed that security personnel
and nurses are among those being
charged over the case.
Charges include involuntary homi-
cide and neglect. The case is expect-
ed to be heard in front of Magistrate
Marse-Ann Farrugia early next year.
An independent inquiry into the
elderly man's disappearance from a
government residence home found
significant shortcomings on the part
of staff working the night shift as well
as the security team assigned with the
main gate on the night of the disap-
pearance.
MATTHEW AGIUS
TWO Maltese companies have been served with
a €40 million garnishee order, filed on behalf of a
Russian company.
The issue concerns a complex international power
struggle over the control of the Fortenova Group that
has now spilled over into the Maltese jurisdiction.
Fortenova is one of Croatia's largest producers and
retailers of food products.
The claim is connected with an ongoing conflict be-
tween a number of depository receipt (DR) holders in
Fortenova and the group's current controlling share-
holder, Malta-registered Open Pass Limited.
On 29 December, 2022, a Dutch court had formally
rejected an appeal filed by Russian bank, Sberbank,
and Saif Alketbi, an investor from the UAE, against
a decision to prevent them from participating in the
Fortenova assembly, due to international sanctions
imposed on Sberbank in April 2022.
Six SVDP staff to be charged
with Carmelo Fino's 2022
disappearance and death
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St Vincent De Paul resident Karmenu Fino walked out of the elderly home in Luqa and his lifeless body was found days later in Birzebbuga
(Photos: Police)
