Corrupt former Times of Malta managing director seen in Valletta cafe with poster-girl from Labour’s 2013 electoral campaign

Adrian Hillman, the corrupt former managing director of Allied Newspapers Ltd, the company which publishes the Times of Malta and The Sunday Times, was seen together with Ramona Frendo, a lawyer who was a poster-girl for Labour’s 2013 general election campaign, in a Valletta café today. They were in intense conversation.

A year ago, this website revealed that Hillman was involved in corrupt, secret business dealings with Keith Schembri, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, who was also the single biggest supplier to Allied Newspapers and its associate company, Progress Press.

The two had set up linked secret companies in the British Virgin Islands and Cyprus, their shareholding obscured by nominees, through which transactions of many hundreds of thousands of euros were made.