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The former prime minister’s chief of staff Keith Schembri is back in court on Monday, as the compilation of evidence against him continues. He and his associates, including his father, Alfio, business partner Malcolm Scerri and accountant Robert Zammit face charges linked to financial corruption. Schembri denies a raft of charges including money laundering and fraud linked to a printing press deal with Allied Newspapers and Progress Press. A previous sitting heard how he paid US$5.5 million in backhanders to three men for the sale of three printing machines to Progress Press, using a netwo...

A request for the extradition of Adrian Hillman has been sent to UK authorities but the process to bring him to Malta could drag on for several weeks.   Times of Malta is informed Maltese authorities sent a detailed request to their UK counterparts last week.  Sources said the Maltese police and State Prosecutor’s Office have not yet received a reply. The process to bring Hillman to Malta to face criminal charges could be a long one, with many legal steps necessary before UK authorities arrest and extradite a person on British soil at a foreign law enforcement agency's request.   

Police call in several people in relation to Hillman-Schembri money laundering probe Financial practitioner Matthew Pace, former Allied Newspaper director Vince Buhagiar and Keith Schembri’s business partner Malcolm Scerri questioned by police 8 March 2021, 8:15pm by Karl Azzopardi Financial services practitioner Matthew Pace was called in for questioning by police in relation to the money laundering probe involving Adrian Hillman and Keith Schembri, MaltaToday has learnt. Pace, a director and shareholder of Zenith Financial Management, was one of several people questioned over the past co...

Studji Kritiċi, Volume Two  2020 As I have affirmed in my first review of his first volume of his critical studies, Tarċisju Zarb is one of Malta’s most prolific poets. He is a worthy author, academician, essayist and teacher whose highly philosophical views of life reflect a very deep and almost painful preoccupation with what is actually going on in a world that is tragically succumbing to chaos. And like all poets, he is still hoping for better days, with more colourful undertones of cynicism that sometimes sound more pronounced and desperate than hopeful. Earlier in 2020, Zarb has en...

It was an average Tuesday for Clayton Baldacchino, before a phone call changed the trajectory of not just his day but his living situation for the immediate future. That panicked call to the 37-year-old came from his sister who informed him that his family home in a social housing block in Ħamrun, where he lives with his parents, was being engulfed in flames. It actually was the apartment below the Baldacchinos’ home, in Triq Meltinone Scerri, that had caught fire. But it was enough for the residents of the entire block of eight apartments to be evacuated – and it looks likely they will ...