The public inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia continues this week with a sitting today, Monday 13th January at 2pm, with Malta Developers’ Association Head Sandro Chetcuti and former police commissioner Ray Zammit to testify.

Under oath, Speaker and former Labour Party Deputy Leader said that Chetcuti had an office on the infamous fourth floor of the party’s headquarters in the months leading up to the general election, all while he was serving as the Vice President of the MDA.

Farrugia was called in by the board to explain a 2013 interview he gave to Times of Malta, where he expressed fears that the Labour Party was in bed with big business and warned that Joseph Muscat was committing “political murder”.

While Farrugia was short on answers on the plethora of businesspeople he saw in the Labour Party headquarters in the months and years leading up to the 2013 general election, he regularly mentioned one name.

“Sandro Chetcuti was there. I know this for certain because he had an office on the fourth floor,” he told the inquiry.

The fourth floor was the base of operations for the general election. And while Chetcuti has denied having an office, he has admitted to being a protagonist in helping Labour get elected and working closely with business people to meet with the party.

With the Labour government leading a construction boom since 2013, Chetcuti has a lot to answer for.

The public inquiry does continue on Tuesday. However, an anonymous witness is also expected to testify, meaning that the inquiry will take place behind closed doors.

2. Yorgen Fenech’s constitutional case against Keith Arnaud: Tuesday 14th January 2020 at 9am

Questions surrounding the perceived failings of the investigation into Schembri have gathered steam over the past few weeks, with Yorgen Fenech’s constitutional case to have Chief Homicide Inspector Keith Arnaud removed from the investigation set to continue on 14th January.

Fenech has testified that Schembri kept him regularly updated on the investigation (including the dates of the arrest of the three men charged with carrying out the crime) and that the information was coming straight from Arnaud, an allegation that Schembri has denied.

Arnaud has also revealed that the police are yet to locate Keith Schembri’s ‘lost phone’ and that he had no idea about Schembri and Fenech’s close relationship when sharing crucial information about the case.

Investigators have also confirmed that they left his Castille office unguarded for close to two days after Schembri’s arrest, only to search it ten days later. Schembri’s office at the Labour Party Headquarters is yet to be examined.

Keith Schembri has testified in the constitutional case. Still, it proved to be evasive after he contradicted the version of events of three people – Yorgen Fenech himself, his doctor Adrian Vella, and Melvin Theuma, who has been granted a conditional presidential pardon in return for revealing everything he knows about the case.