Ex-aide to Malta's PM denies leaking details of probe into reporter's murder

FILE PHOTO: Keith Schembri, former chief of staff to Malta's prime minister, Joseph Muscat, arrives for a meeting at the Auberge de Castille in Valletta, Malta, May 29, 2018. Picture taken May 29, 2018. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi/File Photo

VALLETTA (Reuters) - The former chief of staff to Malta's prime minister denied on Wednesday leaking information about an investigation into the killing of an anti-corruption reporter to the man accused of masterminding her murder.

The ex-aide, Keith Schembri, also denied writing a letter to the suspected mastermind, Yorgen Fenech, which instructed him what to tell police following Fenech's arrest over Daphne Caruana Galizia's death in a car bombing in October 2017.