Prosecutors in Malta charged on Saturday former top government official Keith Schembri, his father and nine business associates with money laundering and fraud. Schembri was accused years ago by murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia of corruption.
Schembri, who served as former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s chief of staff, and the others were charged with money laundering, criminal conspiracy and accountancy crimes to fraud, false testimony and the falsification of documents.
They pleaded not guilty but were denied bail after prosecution said they had access to means to abscond and to an obscure financial system. The suspects have also shown a propensity to obstruct justice when they allegedly falsified documents and made untrue declarations to state authorities, local media cited the prosecution as saying.
Source: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14092-ex-maltese-pm-aide-among-11-charged-with-corruption