Former police commissioner Peter Paul Zammit has strenuously denied accusations that he handed confidential documents to the press, after an inquiry found these were in his office at the time they were leaked.

Mr Zammit was reacting to comments by justice shadow minister Jason Azzopardi who yesterday said it was “clearly” Mr Zammit who had handed police inspector Elton Taliana’s personal file to Malta Today managing editor Saviour Balzan.

Dr Azzopardi was referring to the findings of a Data Protection Commissioner investigation, revealed by Times of Malta yesterday, which found that the documents had been illegally copied and passed on to Mr Balzan after they had been requested by Mr Zammit.

The investigation, however, does not conclude that the files were leaked by Mr Zammit – only that they were in his possession at the time.

Read more in Times of Malta.