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Confectioners charged with money laundering over alleged cheque-cashing service Couple who offered to cash cheques for their clients against payment released on bail 25 January 2021, 12:52pm by Matthew Agius A couple have been charged with money laundering offences after allegedly offering to cash cheques for clients, against payment, at their confectionary. 44-year-old Marsa resident Alan Harmsworth and his wife Josephine, 41, were arraigned under arrest before magistrate Ian Farrugia accused of operating as an unlicensed financial institution or bank in breach of financial services and ban...

A couple who run a confectionery store in Marsa on Monday faced money laundering charges over claims that they cashed customers’ cheques against commissions of up to €16.   Alan Harmsworth, 44, and his wife Josephine, 41, pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted bail. Police investigators say they have spoken to around 25 customers of the store, some of who told them that they were charged between €3 and €16 in commission for each cheque cashed. An analysis of the couple’s bank account showed that they had deposited several cheques. The investigation dates back to 2015 an...

Two suspect drug-traffickers who were remanded in custody on Sunday were back in court on Monday for the first hearing in separate compilations of evidence. They were arrested in a joint police operation over the weekend.  Dean Martin, 40, and Melvin Debono, 29, had been targeted in a weeks-long surveillance operation that culminated in a massive haul of drugs, cars, gold and cash, worth almost €800,000, at Paola on Saturday.  Debono had just regained his personal freedom on December 1, having landed under preventive custody in October in a separate arraignment wherein he had pleaded not ...