“How did you arrive at him and not anyone else from Express Trailers?” asked the lawyer. Valenzia asked the inspector how a former Express Trailers employee, Matthew Borg, had been suspected of having insider information relating to the shipment. Inspector Omar Zammit was summoned to the stand to be cross-examined by the defence in today’s sitting. The court reminded the defence that the cross-examination was to be made on the contents of the examination-in-chief and made specific reference to the testimony in the acts to guide him. He also reserved the right to seek Constitutional remedies. Inspector Zammit added that in any case, the law allowed the prosecution to use anonymous information.Īfter arguing with the court and the prosecution on the matter of intelligence, Valenzia dictated a note reserving the right to ask questions in cross-examination on where the intelligence leading to Calleja’s arrest came from and what it consisted of. The court explained that there were treaties governing the use of intelligence and that revealing intelligence would lead to serious negative repercussions on the Maltese police. But this was opposed by the prosecution, with the court also pointing out that if it was disclosed, it would no longer be intelligence.
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When the case was called this morning, Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech noted that Calleja’s lawyer, Benjamin Valenzia had filed an application asking the court to order the police to disclose the intelligence they had about the accused, citing the principle of equality of arms. It was also revealed that Calleja had also discussed importing the poisonous radioactive substance polonium, which has been used in the past to poison targets of assassination attempts, famously in the case of Alexander Litvinenko. The interception was the result of cooperation between foreign and local intelligence services. Lawyer Benjamin Valenzia is defence counsel.A court looks set to refuse a request for the disclosure of intelligence received by the police in the case against Jomic Calleja, who was arrested after allegedly attempting to illegally import explosives he purchased on the dark web, together with radioactive polonium.Ĭalleja was arrested in 2020 after the police carried out a controlled delivery of a package that had been intercepted and found to contain the military-grade explosive C4.
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Superintendent George Cremona and Inspector Omar Zammit are prosecuting. It was later revealed that Calleja had taken the document home for his father to sign but witnesses could not confirm whether his father had actually signed the paper.Ĭalleja will now face charges of forgery along with other offences related to a planned polonium assassination plot against an officer. Jomic Calleja will face additional charges of forgery after previous sittings raised questions about a signature on a lease agreement for a Qormi showroom, alleged to be belonging to the 34-year-old’s father.Ĭalleja’s father, Carmel Grech, testified in court and denied that the signature belonged to him, prompting an investigation by a handwriting expert which eventually matched the signature to Calleja. Fresh new charges of forgery are being brought against a Maltese man believed to have imported C4 explosives to take out a high-ranking security forces officer.