Yes, you’re right, no charges yet.

This so called investigation was totally vitiated and Inspector Pullicino was so biased that he interpreted the events in his own way and ended up arresting Ms Chircop and locking her up at the Floriana police lock up to the delight of Silvio Scerri.

The latter was only questioned in the Inspector’s office and was not detained in a cell. Police records can show this.

Now even though the ‘investigation’ is not yet concluded the inspector is hinting that the report was false. This is highly suspicious because the police never commit themselves to such statements concerning ongoing investigations unless there is some hidden agenda.

If the inspector has reason to believe that the report was false he should prosecute the persons filing the report.

But the truth is that this report was not false and the inspector has no proof to substantiate his claim. He is just trying to cover up for his friend Silvio Scerri. After all he has to show him gratitude for ‘promoting’ him to ‘Officer in Charge’ while waiting to be promoted to the rank of Superintendent.

Way back in 2012 Inspector Chris Pullicino was investigated by the than Police Commissioner John Rizzo on accusations of corruption in connection with a homicide case he was investigating and prosecuting in court.

Mr Rizzo did not have enough proof to charge him and as it was his custom to deal with such situations he ‘punished’ him by taking him off the Homicide Squad.

Following the change in government and Silvio Scerri’s appointment to Chief of Staff at the Ministry for Interior and National Security, Inspector Pullicino was redeployed to the Homicide Squad, as officer in charge.

In this case Fr. Montebello is more a victim of his ‘brother’ than trying to bribe someone.

Yet another faux pas exposed in the press today, remember the Gensna incident where workers were injured, one of whom needed emergency surgery to have his spleen removed?

This in itself has life-long consequences, putting him at risk of infection, and requiring long-term treatment. The victim, Mr Ronayne wrote to the OHSA.

“To his great surprise, however, an OHSA emailed him to tell him that the authority did not carry out any investigation on the incident that you mentioned, and will thus not take any steps itself’.”

Who, one asks, was duty bound to investigate an incident, where people were injured at their place of work. besides of course the police?

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-11/local-news/Man-critically-injured-in-Gensna-lighting-collapse-files-judicial-protest-against-OHSA-6736125436

The two cases are separate: one is a libel court case, while the other is just an investigation.

To my knowledge Father Montebello has not been charged with any offence but that a criminal complaint has been filed against him with the police. I tend to agree with Kev on bribery.

What was Fr Montebello charged with? Bribery? What bribery? Since when is passing a message towards civil compensation ‘bribery’? In the circumstances, the “six-figure” sum would more likely result in a case of extortion than bribery.

Compare this with the Scerri case. Now that three years have elapsed, are they still building a case against the Pole and his ‘accomplices’ once the police have determined that Scerri’s word counts more than that of two complainants and one main witness?

You’re kidding right?

Panic everywhere as Mizzi discovers the harsh reality of EU programme funding deadlines.

Eighteen months to revise Bormla managing to produce a black spot right next to Dock 1 gate, bless him, onto Msida, Lija and the Coast Road conjunctively.

Ok, so he plonked a couple of gutters across Valley Road.

Seems the only thing this minister’s good at is rushing from one chaotic job to another. Or maybe it’s Labour’s cunning plan to force us to take the bus.

As for the quality of the work, I’ve never seen tree planters trimmed in sliced bricks, edges jutting out at car tyres.

They’ve proceeded to lay a kerb ON TOP of the new ‘tarmac’, right opposite Tikams, cement expressively dolloped, the intention presumably to seal the base.

Jew ahjar, kif jinghad fid-dinja tal-kuntratturi, kulhadd jghaffeg fuq xulxin.

They’ve recently announced state of the art electronic traffic management, brace yourselves. Fancy ten minutes at a red light in downtown Fawwara anyone?

Where does Silvio Scerri get all this power from? Why does he have this hold on his “boss”?

I once had something to do with this man, about 15 years ago, and he came across really badly. When I backed off from a possible business agreement he became verbally aggressive. His reaction confirmed my gut feeling and I was glad I decided against having anything to do with him.