These are the main headlines reviewed by our editorial and research team for today.
Opposition and Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia has made a formal request to the Commissioner of Police for Karl Cini of Nexia BT to be investigated, as recommended by then Magistrate Aaron Bugeja in the report on the Egrant inquiry. Source: TVM
Police investigations of the conclusions and recommendations made in the Egrant inquiry report are ongoing, the force said today. The police reacted to a speech by Opposition leader Adrian Delia last Sunday in which he lambasted lack of action against Nexia BT partner Karl Cini after the Egrant inquiring magistrate recommended he be investigated. Source: MaltaToday
Entrepreneur Diane Izzo said she plans to sue Nationalist Party MP Jason Azzopardi after he suggested that the Dizz business empire she leads was a money laundering vehicle. In a Facebook post, Dr Azzopardi had argued that the Dizz Group should be investigated. Mr and Mrs Izzo are personal friends of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his wife Michelle. Source: Times of Malta
Speaker Anglu Farrugia said that he never supported Joseph Muscat and did not endorse him when he ran for leader in 2008. Source: The Malta Independent
The relationship of the disgraced Chief of Staff Keith Schembri with Brian Tonna and Adrian Hillman are amongst the recommendations that emerged from the Egrant Inquiry Report and that are already being investigated by the Malta Police Force and the Inquiring Magistrates. Source: Newsbook
Update: A jewellery store in Bisazza Street was robbed today. The robbery in Sliema took place at 3.45pm, when three masked people went in, broke displays, threw the 31-year-old sales person to the ground, stole items and left. Nobody was injured.cInvestigations are ongoing and a magisterial inquiry was called.
