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Destiny Chuckunyere and her Eurovision Song Contest performance take centre stage on this Sunday’s newspapers, with a photo of the Maltese singer featuring on all front pages. The Sunday Times of Malta reports that Malta lost an area the size of 250 football pitches to development over the past three years. The calculation was made by researchers using satellite imagery. The newspaper also reports that former Progress Press managing director Adrian Hillman was arrested by police in the UK thi...

Hillman, who is wanted by the Maltese police on charges of money laundering and corruption, is the subject of an extradition request from the UK where he currently lives.

Ronald Agius, former managing director of Allied Newspapers and Progress Press, has died, aged 88. Born in Sliema, Agius was educated at St Edward’s College and joined Progress Press in 1962 as a manager in the Publication Department. He was subsequently appointed managing director of Allied Newspapers in 1968 and chairman of Progress Press in 1979. Agius left Allied Newspapers Ltd in 2003, having spent 41 years with the company, including 38 as managing director. Agius was a founding member ...

Progress Press files legal bid to recoup $5 million from Keith Schembri Allied Newspapers company starts legal proceedings to recover $5 million from Keith Schembri and former directors 19 May 2021, 2:06pm by Matthew Vella The printing arm of Allied Group, Progress Press, has filed judicial protests in Court against the former chief of staff to the Prime Minister Keith Schembri and two of its former managing directors, to recoup some $5 million when it purchased printing machinery in 2008 from...

Progress Press has initiated legal proceedings to recoup US$5 million from Keith Schembri and two of its former top officials.  The company said in a statement released on Wednesday that it had filed judicial protests in court against Schembri, who formerly served as chief of staff at the Office of the Prime Minister, Adrian Hillman and Vincent Buhagiar. The action comes after police began criminal proceedings against Schembri and Buhagiar for alleged bribery and money laundering and extraditi...

Two Malta Enterprise engineers had inspected printing machinery purchased by Progress Press from Kasco Engineering Ltd, confirming that it was in line with the

The business proposal submitted by Progress Press included “unquantified consumables” which should have been excluded 

A Malta Enterprise official responsible for handling funding applications saw no fraud by Progress Press in an application that led to money laundering charges against the company, he told a court on Wednesday. George Francalanza made the statement while testifying in the compilation of evidence against Keith Schembri and his business associates, who stand accused of corruption, money laundering and other charges. They are pleading not guilty. Francalanza was the officer who recommended approvi...

Two Progress Press officials facing fraud and money laundering charges made no personal financial gains from the allegedly fraudulent application filed for a grant from Malta Enterprise, a police inspector testified on Monday.  Leanne Bonello, from the police anti-money laundering squad, told the court that after carefully analysing financial statements belonging to Progress Press managing director Michel Rizzo and former financial controller Claude Licari, the police found nothing to prove an...

The goose and the gander To read Allied’s statement that the State has now landed everyone in court, could be insinuated as some orchestrated campaign against the company or newspaper, is certainly hard to digest Saviour Balzan 3 May 2021, 7:15am Some five days before the 2017 election, then-Opposition leader Simon Busuttil testified for a good 90 minutes before Magistrate Josette Demicoli. Busuttil’s target was justifiably Keith Schembri, the former OPM chief of staff. He had said that h...