Yorgen Fenech has claimed that Keith Schembri’s “fingerprints” were all over an €80,000 sum linked to Melvin Theuma, as prosecutors continued cross-examining him on money, leaks, 17 Black and his links to former police officials.The claim came as prosecutor Godwin Cini pressed Fenech on whether he only indirectly knew that Schembri was allegedly the “mastermind” behind Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder.Fenech said Theuma would mention Schembri and that Schembri had “intimated” it.Asked about the €400,000 he said Theuma had “drained” from him, Fenech said he had asked Schembri for €80,000.“His fingerprints are all over it, but you do not want to see it,” Fenech told the court.Cini pushed back, telling Fenech that it was his voice in the recordings and his writing in the messages.“We will hear them together,” Fenech replied.Fenech also repeated his claim that Schembri was the “real mastermind”, telling the court that Theuma still had power because, if he spoke, Schembri would be the one facing the charges.The cross-examination later turned to 17 Black, the Dubai company owned by Fenech.Asked whether he had followed a script when answering police questions, Fenech denied doing so, saying the two scripts had come from Schembri.When Cini said prosecutors now had all the evidence that Fenech owned 17 Black, Fenech replied: “I am not denying it.”He told jurors that although a case had been opened against him concerning 17 Black, police had “never even questioned me once” about it.Fenech was also questioned about former police superintendent Ray Aquilina, including Signal exchanges and meetings at Portomaso.Cini referred to a message from Fenech’s Portomaso secretary saying Aquilina was there for an appointment. Fenech had allegedly replied with an instruction not to write Aquilina’s name in the visitors’ register.Fenech said he never spoke to Aquilina about Theuma and insisted their contact had nothing to do with police work.The defence objected to parts of this questioning, arguing that the prosecution risked straying into separate proceedings involving Aquilina.Madam Justice Edwina Grima allowed prosecutors to question Fenech about Aquilina, but warned them to tread carefully and not refer before the jury to the fact that Fenech is a co-accused in that separate case.“We are treading dangerous waters,” the judge said.Earlier, prosecutors also questioned Fenech about messages with former tax commissioner Marvin Gaerty.Fenech confirmed he owned 17 Black and said he had “nothing to hide”, while one exchange showed Gaerty telling him: “Don’t worry, brother.”Fenech denies charges of complicity in Caruana Galizia’s murder and involvement in a criminal organisation.•