Keith Schembri Set To Be Charged For Giving Murder Middleman Melvin Theuma A Fake Job
Former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri is set to face charges over a fake government job that was given to Daphne Caruana Galizia murder middleman Melvin Theuma.
Murder suspect Yorgen Fenech, former OPM head of customer care Sandro Craus, former CEO of the Housing Maintenance Embellishment Anthony Muscat, and former Family Minister private secretary Anthony Mario Ellul will also face charges, NET News reported.
Theuma, who was given a pardon in return for information on the Caruana Galizia murder, testified in court back in 2019 that he was given a fake government job shortly after arranging the price to kill the journalist.
He said that Fenech had told him to await a call from Craus, and that the customer care head then invited him to Castille to meet Schembri.
The middleman was granted a government job shortly afterwards at the Housing Maintenance Embellishment Co Ltd, a government company that falls under the Family Ministry.
Theuma said he never wanted the job in the first place and that he never actually reported to work, but that he received monthly cheques nevertheless. The payments stopped three months after the general election.
“I still have no idea what the job was,” Theuma told the court.
The police last week issued a statement to confirm that five people will be charged in connection with “theft by a public official” following the conclusion of a magisterial inquiry and investigations by the financial crimes police.
No further details were provided.
Times of Malta reported that the court case will commence in September in the courtroom of magistrate Monica Vella.
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