Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar has confirmed that Yorgen Fenech was leaked sensitive information on the police investigation into the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia but said the source of the leaks has yet to be identified.

Cutajar was testifying in court during Fenech’s constitutional case to get Chief Homicide Inspector Keith Arnaud removed from the investigation.

Fenech previously testified that the Prime Minister’s former Chief of Staff Keith Schembri kept him regularly updated on the investigation. The information, he says, was coming straight from Arnaud, an allegation that Schembri has denied.

“During the investigation, I can confirm that there were leaks, which we tried to resolve, but we didn’t find out where they were from. That is the truth. What I know is that where there were leaks, I told the investigators to have a look,” Cutajar told the court.

In a confusing twist, it also appears that Arnaud may have even investigated the very claim that he was the leak, with Cutajar growing flustered when facing questions on the issue.

While at first he said that Arnaud was involved, along with fellow homicide inspetor Kurt Zahra, he later changed his tune that he could not confirm.

Evidence of leaks is somewhat corroborated. Arnaud has confirmed under oath that he, along with former deputy police commissioner Silvio Valletta, informed Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and Schembri that the arrests of the three men charged with the assassination were imminent.

This, Arnaud said, happened the “Wednesday or Thursday” before the arrest in December 2017.

The same day, Melvin Theuma has confirmed to the courts, Fenech told him of the upcoming arrest, and in turn, informed the Degiorgio brothers and Vince Muscat.