A man alleged to have hired two “hitmen” to attack his ex-father-in-law is the applicant behind a collapsed building in Corradino. Matthew Joseph Schembri is the sole owner of WhiteFrost, a company that primarily specialises in air-conditioning supply and installation. While the bulk of WhiteFrost’s social media posts focus on the importance of regularly maintaining air-conditioning units, in October the company put up a Facebook post advertising vacancies for full-time construction and masonry workers, as well as other related turnkey services. WhiteFrost has also been awarded over 25 government contracts, including ones for the removal of dangerous structures and support works in government tenements, over the past 10 years. Schembri runs an air conditioning company that has won over 20 government contracts for various works. Schembri describes himself on LinkedIn as the “director of construction” at WhiteFrost, and is listed on the Planning Authority’s website as the applicant behind the Corradino project. Investigations are ongoing into whether Schembri or other third parties are culpable for the collapse, which took the life of a 20-year-old and left five others injured...
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