Road works corruption: police charge fourth man

On Wednesday afternoon the police charged 36 year old Godfrey Cutajar from B'Bugia, with accepting bribes to provide receipts which were then presented as part of the documents presented to Transport Malta for road works. He was granted bail after pleading guilty to money laundering.

On Wednesday morning George Schembri, a director of Alfred Schembri and Sons Ltd and Donald Camilleri, an accounts clerk, were accused of fraud and of making false statements to justify overcharging Transport Malta for road works.

It took the police a year to analyse 20 road works contracts and to question Transport Malta officials about a trend in them for costs that overran the original contracts.

The police said that Schembri had made an illegal profit of over €500,000 over two years to the detriment of the government. The court accepted the prosecution’s request to freeze the financial assets of George Schembri and Donald Camilleri.

The police also charged 35 year old Architect Gordon Zammit from Attard but resident in Sliema, who works at Transport Malta with inflating bills for road works and would split the difference with Schembri between his bills and the normal bills. Zammit was denied bail and was sent to Corradino Corrective Facility.