

The expert had later reported that the signature, next to the father’s identity card number, actually matched the accused’s own handwriting.

That denial had prompted presiding magistrate, Donatella Frendo Dimech, to appoint a handwriting expert to analyse and compare the signatures of father and son. That signature, was meant to have been done by the accused’s father who, however, when testifying in court, had denied that it was his. In the course of the compilation of evidence, Calleja ended up facing additional charges of forgery after doubts arose about the genuineness of a signature on a lease agreement for a Qormi showroom.

The parcel was subsequently sent on to its intended destination. Members of the local anti-terrorism squad had travelled to Arizona last August, where the parcel was intercepted and its contents, C-4 type explosive hidden inside a sound speaker, was extracted by an expert. Jomic Calleja Maatouk, a 34-year-old Żebbuġ resident, had been targeted by criminal investigations last summer, following a tip-off by foreign security services about a "suspicious" parcel heading towards a Maltese addressee by the name of “Roger Tabone”. Guest Post Services Domain Authority 66 man who stands accused of trying to import explosives from a seller on the dark web, has been granted bail, after spending some four months under preventive custody. Moreover, the police received information from various channels, including. The request found strong opposition from the prosecution, which insisted that intelligence would not remain so if it were to be divulged. He said he was making this request on the basis of the principle of equality of arms and disclosure of information held by the police about his client.

When the case continued before Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech on Monday, lawyer Benjamin Valenzia said he had filed an application prior to the sitting where he was requesting information related to police intelligence that led to his client's arrest. The operation was the result of cooperation between local and foreign intelligence agencies.Ĭalleja had discussed importing the poisonous radioactive substance polonium over the dark web, the court heard in previous sittings. Jomic Calleja was arrested in 2020 after a package containing explosives was delivered to him in a controlled delivery organised by the police. A man accused of attempting to illegally import explosives and polonium he had purchased on the dark web, has requested the police in court to reveal the intelligence that led to his arrest.
