Former Office of the Prime Minister chief of staff Keith Schembri told jurors on Tuesday that Johann Cremona had been offered up to €400,000 by Yorgen Fenech's lawyers to testify in the businessman's favour, only for the witness to repeatedly refuse to answer the court's questions before ultimately insisting he had "made it up". A dramatic confrontation
The jury hearing the trial of businessman Yorgen Fenech was plunged into fresh turmoil on Tuesday after a dramatic courtroom confrontation between two key witnesses prompted the defence to seek the dissolution of the jury, only for the presiding judge to reject the request and order proceedings to continue. The extraordinary scenes unfolded after former
Defence lawyer Giannella De Marco threatened to request the dissolution of the jury on Tuesday evening after Johann Cremona was brought back to court and questioned over an alleged attempt to influence his testimony. The dramatic exchange came after Keith Schembri claimed that Cremona had told him he was offered €200,000, and later €400,000, by Yorgen
Keith Schembri today claimed in court that Johann Cremona was offered up to €400,000 to testify in Yorgen Fenech’s favour. While testifying in Fenech’s murder trial, Schembri alleged that Cremona first told him he had been offered €200,000 to give evidence supporting Fenech. According to Schembri, the offer was later increased to €400,000. Schembri
Keith Schembri told jurors that he visited Yorgen Fenech’s ranch both before and after Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder, as prosecutors questioned him about his relationship with the businessman accused of commissioning the assassination. The former OPM chief of staff said he could not recall exactly how many times he went to the ranch, but said he
Keith Schembri, the chief of staff of former disgraced Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, repeatedly told jurors he could not remember key events and insisted he did not know confessed murder middleman Melvin Theuma as he took the witness stand on Tuesday in the trial by jury of businessman Yorgen Fenech. During the first hours of his testimony, Schembri
Keith Schembri, a top former government official, has been called to testify in the murder trial against Yorgen Fenech. You can follow his testimony here . Schembri, a key power broker in Joseph Muscat's government, was implicated in the October 2017 car bombing by Fenech. The pair, who once described themselves as "close friends", fell out upon Fenech's
Keith Schembri is expected to testify when the trial of Yorgen Fenech resumes on Tuesday morning. Fenech, a prominent businessman and old friend of Schembri's, is pleading not guilty to complicity in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Schembri was the chief of staff to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat at the time of that murder, and jurors
Nearly seven years after Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated by a car bomb outside her Bidnija home, the jury trial of Yorgen Fenech, accused of complicity in the crime, has offered the most detailed public examination yet of the relationships, conversations and manoeuvres that surrounded the murder and its aftermath. While jurors will ultimately
