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Police raid Rita Schembri's private residence, discover original OLAF report
Original OLAF report found at the private residence of Rita Schembri following a raid carried out by the Police.
2 May 2013, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
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Rita Schembri
The original OLAF report of the John Dalli investigation has been found at Rita Schembri's private residence following a raid carried out this evening by the police, MaltaToday has learnt.
Schembri, 47 from Wardija, is the head of the OPM's internal audit and investigations department.
The original OLAF report has been confiscated by the police on the premise that the report was government property.
It is not known whether other sensitive documents pertaining to the sensitive work carried by the IAID was in Schembri's possession.
At this stage, it is also unknown whether Rita Schembri will be prosecuted over any charges.
However in a separate report coordinated by the National Audit Office after her suspension, it was made amply clear that important documents were removed from reports by IAID staff on Schembri's orders.
It appears these reports dealt primarily with audits of EU funded projects.
Schembri had suspended herself and abandoned her senior post in November after MaltaToday revealed her direct involvement in undeclared private work related to the sale of the Casino dI Venezia of Birgu.
Later it was discovered that Rita Schembri had used her government office to hold meetings for her lucrative private work. A close associate of former permanent representative to the EU for Malta Richard Cachia Caruana and former principal permanent secretary Godwin Grima, Schembri assisted the OLAF investigations into former EU Commissioner John Dalli coordinated by Giovanni Kessler, the OLAF director general.
MaltaToday has reported that Schembri told her superiors that she was acting on third party orders in the case of the John Dalli investigation coordinated by Giovanni Kessler, the head of the EU's anti-fraud office OLAF.
The OLAF report was published by MaltaToday last Sunday.
