Court upheld a whistleblower’s request to testify remotely in proceedings about the alleged driving licence racket at Transport Malta.
On Tuesday, the former Transport Malta official who acted as a whistleblower on the authority’s driving tests scandal wrote to the magistrate compiling evidence to explain that he had fled the Maltese islands because he feared for his life.
In an application filed on Tuesday afternoon, the man’s lawyer Jason Azzopardi, said that when the whistleblower opened up to a “senior official of the state” at the Palace in Valletta, he was told to be careful, “because you are stepping on many toes and you will end up like Daphne.”
Adel Ali Hassan said he is ready to testify via video-conferencing, stating that he feared for his life should he return to Malta, and that such fears prompted him to leave the country in the first place.
On Wednesday, Magistrate Rachel Montebello upheld the request while the prosecution said that it requested the witness to testify via video conferencing.
This came as court case against Clint Mansueto, Raul Antonio Pace and Philip Edrick Zammit who stand accused of corruption as former officials at the transport regulator continued.
TM whistleblower offers to testify remotely after being warned ‘you’ll end up like Daphne’
The court also requested information as to the witness’s whereabouts but prosecuting lawyer Abigail Caruana Vella explained that the police inspector did not have information as to where the...
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