Matthew Caruana Galizia Calls Out Keith Schembri After His ‘Potential Client’ Arrested For His Mother’s Assassination
Matthew Caruana Galizia has questioned why the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Keith Schembri has not yet resigned in the wake of Yorgen Fenech’s arrest in connection with the murder of his mother Daphne Caruana Galizia.
“Confirmed: Yorgen Fenech was on the boat and tried to escape Malta. This is the man whose role was to remit bribe payments to Muscat’s chief of staff. Who is still his chief of staff,” Caruana Galizia tweeted.
Confirmed: Yorgen Fenech was on the boat and tried to escape Malta. This is the man whose role was to remit bribe payments to Muscat’s chief of staff. Who is still his chief of staff. https://t.co/2sMbu6lzMO
— Matthew Caruana Galizia (@mcaruanagalizia) November 20, 2019
In April 2018, Fenech was revealed to be the owner of 17 Black, one of two Dubai companies named in a leaked email that Nexia BT partner Karl Cini had sent Mossack Fonseca, requesting the Panamanian law firm to open bank accounts for companies owned by Schembri and Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi.
In the email, Cini stated that Schembri’s and Mizzi’s main target clients will be Dubai companies called 17 Black and Macbridge and that these two companies will transfer €150,000 a month to Mizzi’s and Schembri’s companies.
The identity of Macbridge has not been revealed, but Schembri has said that both it and 17 Black had been included in draft business plans for his Kasco business group as potential clients, but that neither he nor any of his companies had ever conducted any transactions with either of them.
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