Schembri's investigative journalism led to the clampdown on the trading of ancient Mesopotamian artefacts from Iraq on eBay via Malta, the first ever exposure of rampant child rape by Catholic priests in a children's institution,[3] fraudulent faith healers, and the serious security lapses at Malta's world heritage and fine arts museums from where priceless pieces have been stolen.
In an April 2006 investigation, Schembri revealed internal armed forces communications logs showing that Maltese army rescuers were given orders to “keep at a distance” from a boat carrying 200 migrants in gale-force winds, hours before 9 of them drowned and at least 20 went missing in a shipwreck off the coast of Sicily.
In 2009, Schembri joined Palestinian news agency Ramattan as their English service editor, first in Ramallah and then in the Gaza Strip, where he lived for four years before moving to Jordan.
Over the past years, Schembri has been based in the Middle East working as a media adviser with humanitarian organisations including Oxfam, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Save the Children.
[6] Il-manifest tal-killer was censored by the University of Malta's radio station,[7] Campus FM, after the management learnt that it was going to be read in the literary programme series Wara Arrigo in January 2007.