Malta Gaming Authority issues statement on Iosif Galea arrest

The Malta Gaming Authority has issued a statement on former employee Iosif Galea

The Malta Gaming Authority has issued a financial statement on former employee Iosif Galea.

Galea, a gaming consultant, has been the theme of extended media attending after it emerged that he was arrested at an Italian airdrome inward mid-May.

Italian authorities apprehended Galea at Brindisi airport as he arrived for a holiday, where he was lot to conjoin a group that included his partner and former Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.

Since finally year, Galea has been the depicted object of a European Arrest Warrant issued by German authorities, and afterward of another European Arrest Warrant issued by the Malti police.

The German stock warrant regarded alleged task evasion, while the Maltese cat warrant was linked to alleged leaked info from the gaming regulator.

Galea, who currently heads his possess consultancy company, was antecedently employed by the Malta Gaming Authority as a Compliance Officer.

The regulator today published a statement distancing itself from Galea and said: “The MGA would like to elucidate that Mr Galea has non been employed with the Authority since March 2013. Mr Galea held the role of Compliance Officer between Dec 2007 and Mar 2013.”

Concerns experience been raised as to wherefore Galea was permitted to freely travel inward and out of Republic of Malta without existence arrested, despite the authorities existence in ownership of a European Arrest Warrant for over a year.

Galea has antecedently faced criminal allegations and was finally yr fined €53,333 ($56,710) for engaging inwards “unauthorised business activity,” being ordered to cease operating as a corporate services provider.

It is currently unclear whether Galea will live taken plunk for to Malta or to human face charges inward Germany.