In the Press: Dalli, ex-Police Commissioner in limelight

The Times of Malta

Maximilian Ciantar has been charged with violating a driving ban and threatening a woman after crashing into her car. The crash occured in Hamrun, where Ciantar threatened the woman after crashing his mother's Renault Megane into her car and then feeling the scene of the accident, triggering a police search which ended when he was found four hours later, apparently suffering a drug overdose.

In-Nazzjon

Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia has refused to answer questions pertaining to the removal of former Police Commissioner Peter Paul Zammit from his post, just over a year after his appointment. Questions put to him by Opposition leader Simon Busuttil in Parliament went unanswered.

L-Orizzont

In a statement released yesterday, ex-Commissioner John Dalli said that Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso admitted to him that he had reacted to the OLAF report without having scrutinized it first. Dalli went further in his statement, saying that Barroso had done this because he knew that the report was baseless.

The Malta Independent

Minister Manuel Mallia has denied that the resignation of ex-Police Commissioner Zammit was related to Zammit's refusal to cooperate with the EU's anti-fraud agency OLAF over investigations into John Dalli. The commissioner's resignation was announced a day after the publication of a letter from OLAF head Giovanni Kessler to Speaker Anglu Farrugia, saying the Zammit had failed ot respond to OLAF's requests.