A battle for access to documents linked to the government's decision to appoint Silvio Valletta to the board of the FIAU hit another hurdle on Tuesday when a tribunal decided that it will only start hearing witnesses in September. NGO Repubblika filed the case for access to information two years ago, on March 23, 2020 On Tuesday, the Information and Data Protection Appeals Tribunal ordered the government to present witnesses at a sitting on September 13. Silvio Valletta in his days as deputy police commissioner. Valletta, a former deputy police commissioner, was appointed to the board of the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) by the finance ministry despite concerns over his impartiality, given that he was married to then-parliamentary secretary Justyne Caruana. Concerns over Valletta’s appointment to the sensitive position were also raised during the public inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Valletta stepped down from the police in 2019. Nearly a year later Times of Malta exposed his close relationship with Yorgen Fenech, the man accused of complicity in the assassination. Repubblika is seeking a list of the names that had been put...