The Police Commissioner and the Attorney General did not yet receive the inquiries into offshore companies opened by murder suspect Yorgen Fenech, former minister Konrad Mizzi and former OPM Chief of Staff Keith Schembri, the Times of Malta reports.
Publishing an article on Wednesday, the Times of Malta said that it contacted the Attorney General and the Police. A spokesperson for the AG's office said that: "The Office of the Attorney General has not received the records of the Magisterial Inquiry to which reference is being made in your email." It also quotes a spokesperson for the police as having said: "To date the Police did not receive the indicated Magisterial Inquiry."
On Tuesday, Lawyer Jason Azzopardi had said that another major magisterial inquiry, which encapsulates three inquiries into one, has been concluded. In a post on his Facebook page, Azzopardi said that the inquiry, which he had initiated on behalf of PN MEP David Casa, NGO Repubblika, and former PN Leader Simon Busuttil five years ago was complete. The inquiry had been called for by Casa to investigate 17 Black, a company owned by murder suspect and businessman Yorgen Fenech, and which was tied to the Panama Papers. Fenech is awaiting trial in connection with the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
In 2016, it had been revealed that then minister Konrad Mizzi and then OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri had opened companies in Panama. A third company, known as Egrant, was also opened, and allegations had been made that it belonged to the Joseph Muscat family, an allegation on which no evidence was found in a magisterial inquiry. Muscat had stood by his two right hand men, retaining Schembri in his position while removing the health portfolio from Mizzi, although the latter retained the title of minister.
The Nationalist Party, in a statement, had then said that the 17 Black inquiry should be published by the Attorney General without delay, so that the people could see it.