Former police commissioner Peter Paul Zammit believes investigators are close to identifying those who dug a tunnel in an unsuccessful bid to penetrate a bank vault in St Andrew’s a year ago.

“There is evidence which could lead to someone being identified. If I were still involved I would say that this would happen soon,” Mr Zammit said, adding that since he was no longer in office he could not be certain about what would happen.

Acting Police Commissioner Ray Zammit would not comment on the case.

The 15-metre-long tunnel was discovered by the police in October last year after an anonymous tip-off.

The pathway, a little more than a metre high, had been dug from an unbderground garage complex and had come just a few metres short of the HSBC bank branch vault across Triq il-Qatta.

Times of Malta yesterday returned to the spot and found that the tunnel had not yet been sealed and was still visible from the garage vents that had been prised open. In fact, the only thing stopping anyone from going into the tunnel was a pair of police padlocks fastened to the garage aluminium door.

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