Schembri, Mizzi to sue Daphne Caruana Galizia amid war of words

Updated 1.20pm with Mizzi, Caruana Galizia statement Keith Schembri, the prime minister's chief of staff, and Minister Konrad Mizzi said they will be instituting libel proceedings against Daphne Caruana Galizia, minutes after she implicated them in claims of bank transfers from Azerbaijan. In a blog post this morning, Ms Caruana Galizia said that very large sums of money had been transferred from the bank account of a company owned by politically exposed persons in Azerbaijan. The money, she said, had been transferred to "bank accounts held by Egrant Inc, Hearnville Inc (ultimate beneficial owner: Konrad Mizzi, the Minister Within The Office of the Prime Minister) and Tillgate Inc (UBO: Keith Schembri, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff)." A year after the Panama Papers scandal broke out, the blogger also said she would reveal in the coming days the identity of the person who owns the third company in Panama, Egrant Inc, which she said was put into dissolution a few days ago, indicating that another company may have been set up to replace it. A Maltese bank, set up after 2013, was used to move the money, she added. But in a statement through the Department of Information, Mr...