Melvin Theuma admitted under cross-examination on Wednesday that he had lied when he implicated former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, as defence lawyer Gianella De Marco repeatedly challenged the self-confessed middleman's credibility. As the cross-examination started after four days of question from the
Pardoned murder middleman Melvin Theuma admitted he had lied about the involvement of former chief of staff Keith Schembri in Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination and had also bluffed about obtaining information directly from then-Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar. The admissions came during a combative day of cross-examination in Yorgen Fenech’s
Melvin Theuma admitted in court that he gave money to a former assistant police commissioner who was also providing him with sensitive information about the police investigation into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder. Under cross-examination on Wednesday, the self-confessed middleman in the assassination told jurors that he had developed a friendship
Yorgen Fenech’s former business associate Johann Cremona told Melvin Theuma in a recorded conversation that Keith Schembri was set to receive “a load of money” through Fenech’s 17 Black, with Cremona saying the payments were to be made “daily”. Earlier on Tuesday, the court heard an exchange between Cremona and Theuma in which the pair discussed 17
