A magisterial inquiry has recommended criminal charges be filed against former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri and ex-Allied Group managing director Adrian Hillman.
Police and the state prosecutor’s office are now understood to be mapping a way forward to take court action against the two with one high-level source saying the pair could be charged in court “in a few weeks”.
The expected court action comes on the back on an inquiry, conducted by Magistrate Josette Demicoli, which was handed over to the state prosecutor’s office for consideration last Monday.
Although its conclusions have so far remained under wraps, sources told
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Nationalist Party spokesperson Karol Aquilina says that the inquiry into money laundering allegations involving former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri and Adrian Hillman should be published ‘immediately and without censorship’
Police mull prosecution over Nexia operations
Former Nexia managing partner Brian Tonna will be posting police bail at Floriana General Headquarters
28 February 2021, 9:19am
by Matthew Vella
The Maltese police are a step closer to prosecute alleged financial crimes committed under the aegis of Nexia BT, the audit company under which Joseph Muscat’s former chief of staff Keith Schembri and former minister Konrad Mizzi opened secret offshore companies in Panama.
MaltaToday has been told that former Nexia managing partner Brian Tonna will be posting police bail at the Floriana GHQ on Monday at 11am. Charges are expected to be prepared over financial operations carried out at Nexia BT before the audit firm was wound down in 2020.
A high-ranking police official who has been widely criticised for sleeping on the Panama Papers investigations into government officials is to be awarded a &ldq