A court has revoked the brief of two assistants appointed to oversee the operations of restaurants at the centre of a police investigation after finding that they have a conflict of interest. The two fish restaurants are fronted by Florinda Sultana and Albert Buttigieg, a former bank official, currently hit by a freezing order in money laundering proceedings. Sultana is the stepdaughter of Darren Debono, who was linked to the companies that own the restaurants. Various issues came to the fore during a hearing on Tuesday regarding the operation of Porticello restaurant in Valletta and Capo Mulini at Marsaxlokk. Sultana and Buttigieg are pleading not guilty to a raft of charges stemming from an extensive police operation last year, which cracked down on a €30 million fuel smuggling racket with alleged links to the restaurant-owning companies owned by Debono. A former accountant, now lawyer, Adrian Sciberras, had been tasked to oversee the ordinary running of MSI Catering Ltd, one of the companies where Sultana had formerly served as director, fronting operations at Porticello. To help him keep a close control on daily cash flow at the restaurants, the Attorney General had...