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Allied Group managing director Michel Rizzo and the company’s former financial controller Claude Licari have been charged with money laundering and fraud. The pair were arraigned in court on Thursday as part of a sprawling police investigation following the conclusion of a magisterial inquiry. They were granted bail and spared from having their personal assets frozen. However, the assets of Progress Press, the printing subsidiary of the Allied Group, were frozen. Investigations were led by the police's Financial Crimes Investigation Department. Several other people were charged in separate ...

Former Progress Press chairman Vince Buhagiar could not explain hundreds of thousands of euro he received from Keith Schembri, telling investigators that those were payments for consultancy services forming part of a “gentlemen’s agreement.” Buhagiar, who is pleading not guilty to money laundering offences, received amounts over US$134,000, US$105,000 and €50,000 from a Gibraltar-based company, Malmos Ltd, owned by Schembri.  Details were disclosed on Tuesday by Inspector Ian Camilleri from the anti money laundering squad at the Financial Crimes Investigation Department when testifyi...

[ANALYSIS] Why is Labour’s lead so unassailable? There is no other way to look at it: as things stand Labour is heading to another landslide similar to that in 2013 and 2017. Why has Labour retained its lead despite a global pandemic and a string of arrests and revelations that shook the country to the core? asks James Debono 15 April 2021, 7:14am by James Debono Shadow of Joseph: the 2017 election showed Malta the presidential reach Muscat had not just with Labour voters but beyond The latest MaltaToday survey is definitely bad news for the Nationalist Party. Despite their 26,000-vote gap...

Bonello hits back at Strickland heir, ‘untrue that Mario de Marco controls foundation’ Strickland Foundation chair Giovanni Bonello says Mabel Strickland heir Robert Hornyold-Strickland being selective on legal feuds with Allied's chief shareholder 11 April 2021, 11:12am by Matthew Vella The Strickland Foundation has kicked back at claims by Mabel Strickland’s heir Robert Hornyold-Strickland, in a spat over Allied Newspaper’s appointment of Adrian Hillman as managing director in 2012. Hornyold-Strickland, a 13% shareholder on Allied, has accused Nationalist MP Mario de Marco of bein...

Strickland heir on Allied board insists Hillman promotion was fait accompli Allied shareholder Robert Hornyold-Strickland hits back at claims by Strickland Foundation council member Mario De Marco 8 April 2021, 9:12am by Matthew Vella The heir to Mabel Strickland, Robert Hornyold-Strickland, has accused the Nationalist MP Mario de Marco of occupying a seat on the Council of the Strickland Foundation – the largest shareholder in the Alied Group – against the wishes of Strickland’s vision for the Times newspaper. In a right of reply to this newspaper, Hornyold-Strickland – who holds 13...