Yorgen Fenech told Bangladeshi minister of his 'contact' with PM
Yorgen Fenech spoke of having contact with Malta's prime minister in one of several phone chats with a Bangladeshi minister presented to court on Wednesday. The chats, on messaging application WhatsApp, also included exchanges in January 2019 with former PN media head Pierre Portelli. Chats were presented to court in a constitutional court case where Fenech is claiming that the repeated denial of bail since his arrest two years ago, breached his fundamental rights. The businessman who is awaiting trial over his alleged complicity in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, is claiming that the court's refusal of bail amounts to arbitrary arrest. Inspector Kurt Zahra presented a number of chats from Fenech’s phone, which was seized upon his arrest in November 2019. Zahra explained that he had examined the data retrieved from Fenech’s electronic devices to check which was relevant to investigations into the Caruana Galizia murder. Chats with Bangladeshi minister Asked by State Advocate Chris Soler to explain any of Fenech’s business relations and financing outside Europe, the inspector said that he would make reference to four chats extracted from Fenech’s phone. Only parts of those...