Dalligate witness contradicts previous court evidence on the threats she received

A key police witness in the Dalligate case before the Maltese courts has given evidence contradicting previous information disclosed before the presiding magistrate in December. Lawyer Gayle Kimberley, the Maltese lawyer who acted for the tobacco company Swedish Match, which flagged to the EU the bribe request at the centre of the scandal, said in her latest testimony of April 19, that the only threats she received were from her former lover Iosif Galea and these were exclusively linked to her extra-marital affair. In December of last year, however, the prosecution had said that Dr Kimberley had told police that she had been blackmailed over what to say in court. The prosecution had moved the information then to make a case against giving bail to 49-year-old Silvio Zammit, who is pleading not guilty to charges of corruption and trading in influence over allegations that he asked for €60million to lift an EU-wide ban on snus, a smokeless form of tobacco that can only be sold in Sweden according to current rules. mmicallef@timesofmalta.com See the full story in The Sunday Times of Malta