These are the main headlines reviewed by our editorial and research team for today.
President George Vella has stated that he does not have constitutional powers to remove Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. Dr Vella was replying to questions from journalists in the wake of the message from Opposition leader Adrian Delia who argued yesterday that the President has the legal powers to start a process for the resignation of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat following revelations in Court that his former Chief of Staff is being investigated in connection with the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Source: TVM
Yorgen Fenech has filed a constitutional application where he is labelling Keith Arnaud’s investigation into Keith Schembri’s possible role in Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination as having been ‘careless, approximative if not amateurish.”. Fenech said that, apart from the “incredible fact of the missing mobile”, inspector Arnaud has declared under oath “that he wasn’t even aware of the almost intimate friendship between Yorgen Fenech and Keith Schembri”, even when Melvin Theuma had in court said in the clearest of ways that such a close friendship between the two existed. Source: MaltaToday
The prime minister’s former chief of staff Keith Schembri has resigned from the Labour Party. The former chief of staff said he believed “without any reservations” in the Labour Party’s ability to continue bringing about prosperity and spreading wealth among the Maltese people. Source: Times of Malta
Allied Newspapers Limited has confirmed that it has dismissed Times of Malta journalist Ivan Camilleri. In a statement, the company said: “Following press reports, Allied Newspapers Limited confirms that it has terminated the employment of the Times of Malta senior journalist Mr Ivan Camilleri. This decision was taken after recent facts over a number of diverse issues were brought to the attention of the Company. Allied Newspapers Limited wishes to make it clear that Mr Camilleri is therefore no longer a member of the editorial staff of the company.”. Source: The Malta Independent
The forensic experts tasked by Magistrate Bugeja as part of the Egrant inquiry found that the data sets of both Nexia BT and Pilatus Bank contain a significant amount of documentation in relation to ‘what appear to be suspicious transactions, concealed corporate relationships, and other indicators of probable money laundering and sanction evading activities’. Source: Newsbook
