MALTA
Malta Independent

Rachel Attard
Monday, 10 November 2014

A criminal complaint was filed this morning against Dominican priest Fr Mark Montebello, the accusation being that he tried to bribe a witness in a case involving alleged sexual abuse by Fr Charles Fenech.

The criminal complaint was filed at the Birkirkara police station by Edgar Bonnici Cachia, who is claiming that Fr Mark phoned him on 1 April 2014 at 10.18pm and offered him a six-figure sum for the woman who is alleging that Fr Fenech sexually abused her to withdraw her allegations.

Mr Bonnici Cachia said that his answer was that “we are not for sale”. It is not true, as Fr Mark is saying in The Times, that it was Mr Bonnici Cachia who called. “I did not even have Fr Mark’s number,” he told The Malta Independent.

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