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WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION WEDNESDAY • 29 JULY 2015 • ISSUE 426 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY €1.00 EDITORIAL PAGE 10 www.expressgroup.com We are Orange! Whatever the cargo, Wherever the destination, No matter the logistical risks, We can be trusted. We Deliver. Newspaper post CONTINUES ON PAGE 2 Zammit transferred to economic crimes 'under political pressure' After disciplinary transfer to Valletta police station, former police inspector Daniel Zammit was given transfer back as investigator to economic crimes unit after March 2013 under political pressure from home affairs ministry MATTHEW VELLA THE former police inspector, Dan- iel Zammit – son of former acting police commissioner Ray Zammit – had been reinstated in the police force's economic crimes unit on order of the home affairs ministry, MaltaToday can confirm. Two well-placed sources con- firmed with this newspaper that Zammit had been removed from the Criminal Investigations Depart- ment as police inspector and sta- tioned at the Valletta police station. But in 2013, upon the election of the Labour government, Zammit was brought into the economic crimes unit on the insistence of the home affairs ministry. "He showed promise and was promoted to the CID… but he later proved to be lackadaisical in his job," one source privy to Zammit's career in the police force, said. "He started frequenting certain establishments in Paceville, and was instructed not to specifically frequent gentlemen's clubs, which at the time were a sort of grey area for the police force in terms of regula- tion," the source said. Zammit was later transferred to the Valletta police station. "It was a way of placing him away from what could be a source of compromise for him," the source said. In comments to MaltaToday, home affairs minister said he will be awaiting the outcome of the ongo- ing inquiry headed by Judge Michael Mallia and the Internal investigation by the Malta Police Force before giv- ing a reaction. Daniel Zammit CONTINUES ON PAGE 3 Coast Road closure brings traffic chaos MARTINA BORG MOTORISTS were fuming yesterday, and the St Paul's Bay local council joined them in lambasting the lack of traffic management which led to se- vere gridlock on the roads after it became necessary to shut off the Coast Road completely in the ongoing roadworks project. Motorists have for months been frustrated by slow moving traffic because of the continuing road improvement works but yesterday tempers were flaring, with a hot summer sun beating down on already frayed nerves. Commuters starting their jour- ney from the north of the island spent some 45 minutes just try- ing to get out of St Paul's Bay as traffic first crawled and then came to a complete standstill. "It is unacceptable for this sit- uation to repeat itself," St Paul's Bay mayor Graziella Galea said in a statement, while calling on Transport Malta and the police to take immediate action to ease the situation. "The traffic situation in St Paul's Bay this morning was frightening, with cars practi- cally at a gridlock and constant congestion, chaos and honking of horns," Galea said. She said Transport Malta's statement calling on people to avoid the Coast Road "was obvi- ously not going to be enough to avoid problems faced today by people driving to and from St Paul's Bay, Mellieha, and Gozo." Galea said avoiding the Coast Road was not a solution as it would increase traffic in St Paul's Bay. "Moreover, it is use- less asking drivers to use alter- native roads if those roads are chock-a-block with traffic," the mayor said. SAIF GADDAFI SENTENCED TO DEATH Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libyan former dictator Muammar Gaddafi, was yesterday sentenced to death by a court in Tripoli for crimes committed during the 2011 uprising. SEE MORE ON PAGE 4