An internal investigation into Police Inspector Roderick Zammit’s business interests was launched earlier this week and is looking into companies he set up with his brother, Daniel, also a police inspector up to some weeks ago. 

Informed sources said the inspector has been transferred from the police money laundering investigations unit to Ħamrun police station.

 

He had just returned to duty having been on sick leave at the time when details emerged on the media about the business links which also involve his brother and their father, former acting police commissioner Ray Zammit. They had formed commercial companies with Joe Gaffarena. Police regulations prohibit members of the force from being involved in any business.

Former Inspector Daniel Zammit is already the subject of an inquiry into his role in the investigation of Neville Baldacchino’s murder in December 2008. At the time the inspector had business connections with Mr Gaffarena, whose son-in-law, Stephen Caruana, was a suspect. 

Daniel Zammit was recently boarded out for psychiatric reasons and given a pension, only for him to be given a consultancy job with Enemalta’s internal audit unit. That contract has since been terminated.

Ray Zammit, remains director of prisons and heads a new agency handling the wardens system. He owned the shares before he became acting police commissioner last year. His shares and those of his sons were transferred to Jane Zammit, the former acting police commissioner’s wife, in June last year, according to records held by the Malta Financial Services Authority.  

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