Rosianne Cutajar’s Lawyers Ask Court To Investigate Whether Mark Camilleri Leaking WhatsApp Chat Violated Law
Rosianne Cutajar’s lawyers have asked the Criminal Court and the Attorney General to intervene over the recently leaked WhatsApp chats of her alleged correspondence with murder suspect Yorgen Fenech.
This comes after the former book council chair Mark Camilleri leaked hundreds of pages allegedly containing WhatsApp conversations between the former Labour Minister and Yorgen Fenech, who is currently being charged with Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination.
Within these chats, many intimate details were revealed. The alleged chats date from June to September 2019, a few months before Fenech was arrested and charged with the journalist’s murder.
In a letter to the AG and the criminal court, Cutajar’s lawyers are now asking them to intervene and take action against Camilleri, for publishing the sensitive content.
Cutajar has also stated that she is considering taking action against Camilleri for breaching her rights to private life.
In the letter, it is stated that there is a possibility that the chats had been taken from the acts of the criminal proceedings in the name of The Republic of Malta against Yorgen Fenech.
Cutajar is arguing that this could breach the court-imposed prohibition of publishing content from Fenech’s phone, back in 2021.
A request was also made to the Commissioner of Police to investigate Camilleri for leaking the messages. If found guilty of contempt of court, Camilleri could face a month’s worth of imprisonment and a fine of around €2,000.
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