MAGISTRATE IN MALTA RECOMMENDS THE FILING OF CHARGES AGAINST TWO FORMER GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN ELECTROGAS BRIBERY CASE, KEITH SCHEMBRI AND KONRAD MIZZI, WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN CHARGED IN THE VITALS HOSPITAL SCANDAL

PULLICINO, SCHEMBRI, MIZZI and BOLOGNA

KEITH SCHEMBRI, the former Chief of Staff to disgraced former Maltese Prime Minister JOSEPH MUSCAT, and KONRAD MIZZI, a former minister in Muscat's corrupt administration, now both face likely new criminal charges, after a magisterial inquiry recommended bribery and other charges not yet named, for their participation in the ELECTROGAS scandal, which has been the subject of numerous articles on this blog in recent years.Last year, both Schembri and Mizzi were also charged in the VITALS hospital scandal, which we have also covered here in detail on the Financial Crime Blog.

Joseph Muscat

Also named as likely ELECTROGAS case defendants are the millionaire businessman YORGEN FENECH, a suspect in the assassination of investigative reporter DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA, and Electrogas figures MARIO PULLICINO and PAUL APAP BOLOGNA. It was thought by most legal observers in the EU that the systemic corruption which exists in the Republic of Malta among both the judiciary and the police would bar the proper administration of justice in these corruption cases, and we welcome this new development as a step forward in the enforcement of the Rule of Law.