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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 approving the Progress Press funding application and in an internal Malta Enterprise report wrote that if t...
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 any financial gain. She explained how in Rizzo’s case, there was a €4,500 incoming transaction whi...
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 he had presented the magistrate with irrefutable evidence of a clear case of graft involving the fo...