Police inspector seen dining with drug-trafficker in Knightsbridge restaurant

Corrupt police inspector Daniel Zammit – who was pensioned off from the force a few weeks ago and who is now the subject of an inquiry led by retired Judge Michael Mallia – was seen dining at Mr Chow in Knightbridge, London, in January last year with drug-trafficker Raymond Caruana of Haz-Zebbug and five other people.

Caruana was murdered in March this year as he got into his car after leaving his girlfriend’s house. Both car and corpse were riddled with bullets.

Caruana, who owns a company registered in money-laundering haven the British Virgin Islands, had been placed under a bill of indictment for bribing Judge Raymond Pace to sentence a rival drug-trafficker to an even longer prison term.

The disgraced judge was indicted for the crime but hanged himself before the trial. Daniel Zammit’s wife, a lawyer called Gabrielle Buttigieg, whose father is Malta’s ambassador to the Vatican, and from whom he has been estranged since 2012, was notably close to Judge Ray Pace and one of those crying loudest at his funeral.