Former police commissioner Peter Paul Zammit had dropped disciplinary action against two CID inspectors, who were blamed by an internal inquiry for a blunder that led to the imprisonment on an innocent man, Times of Malta has learnt.
However, the police chief kept insisting on the dismissal of district inspector Elton Taliana from the police force even though he had solved the theft case and arraigned the right person.
To date, disciplinary procedures against Mr Taliana are still ongoing.
The controversial blunder took place in August 2013 when Darryl Luke Borg, 27, from Birkirkara, was accused of theft and sent to prison.
He was released two days later after it emerged he had been wrongly accused.
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