Updated - Adds Commissioner's comments on Isle of MTV incident allegations.
Police Commissioner Peter Paul Zammit said this evening that police investigations into the meeting last week between the Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Home Affairs and Darryl Luke Borg, the man who was wrongly accused of a hold-up, showed that it was Borg who had contacted the Ministry and not the other way around.
Asked in a Net TV interview about how he felt about claims (made by Shadow Minister Jason Azzopardi) that the Chief of Staff, Silvio Scerri, had used convicted criminal Charles Attard as a go-between to contact Mr Borg, the Commissioner said that police investigations, including phone logs, showed that it was actually Mr Borg who contacted the Ministry of Home Affairs.
He had wanted to speak to the minister, Emanuel Mallia, but since he was abroad, he spoke to Mr Scerri instead. It was Mr Borg who took Mr Attard along with him as a person of trust.
The Commissioner said that when he learnt that Mr Borg had been arraigned by mistake, he was the one who had decided that the case should be investigated by the independent Police Board.
Strictly speaking, the board did not need to summon Mr Borg...
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