Deputy Attorney General Donatella Frendo Dimech will be sworn-in as a magistrate next week, the President's official list of engagements has inadvertently revealed.

Such appointments are usually made public through an official government announcement but the weekly list of engagements first revealed Dr Frendo Dimech's name before a second list sent to the media left the name out.

Donatella Frendo Dimech

Dr Frendo Dimech joined the Maltese Attorney General’s Office as a Prosecutor in 1997 where she served as prosecutor with primary responsibility for international cooperation in criminal matters including extraditions and investigations into money laundering and cross-border crime. She was appointed Counsel to the Republic in 1999 and Senior Counsel to the Republic in 2004.

Dr Frendo Dimech was responsible for drafting the legislation implementing Malta’s EU and other international obligations as well as the negotiation of Treaties and Agreements in this field.

In October 2014, Dr Frendo Dimech was elected to the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the Council of Europe’s Convention on laundering, search, seizure and confiscation of the proceeds from crime and on the financing of terrorism.

She was appointed Malta’s Deputy Attorney General in 2012.