Updated 1.50pm
Judge Abigail Lofaro has been backed by Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family, the government and two other judges who sit on an inquiry into the journalist’s assassination, one day after her husband was implicated in a property deal involving murder suspect Yorgen Fenech.
Reading a decree out in court on Monday morning, judge Lofaro said that she had only learnt of the matter on December 19 when her husband, Pierre Lofaro, received questions about it from
Times of Malta. The news report was published the following day.
She said she saw no grounds to recuse herself from the public inquiry, but asked for a declaration of trust in her integrity, impartiality and independence.
Yorgen’s €3.1 million Mdina deal, Rosianne Cutajar, and the judge’s husband
In May 2019, Yorgen Fenech signed a promise-of-sale to buy an Mdina home. Abigail Lofaro’s husband acted as the representative for the seller. The deal fell through, and Labour junior minister Rosianne Cutajar is being chased for a €50,000 broker’s fee she was paid in cash, but which the seller claims has not been returned
20 December 2020, 6:37am
by Matthew Vella
Parliamentary secretary for equality Rosianne Cutajar and her political aide are alleged to have received some €100,000 in brokers’ fees for the sale of a €3.1 million Mdina property to Yorgen Fenech – the magnate accused of masterminding the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Junior Minister Rosianne Cutajar is being chased to repay more than €46,000 in brokerage fees from a multi-million-euro property deal involving murder suspect Yorgen Fenech.
Cutajar is alleged to have acted as a property broker on a promise of sale agreement for Fenech to buy an Mdina house for €3.1 million in May 2019.
The deal allegedly saw her pocket €46,500 in cash, which she is said to have been given before the final deed of sale was signed.
No specific reference to the cash payment was made in Cutajar’s 2019 asset declaration to cabinet.
Contacted for comment, Cutajar did not reply to a series of questions about the alleged cash payment. Instead, she sent
A government statement issued on Tuesday about a public inquiry into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia exposed its state of panic about proceedings there, political party ADPD said on Wednesday. The mafia state is showing its true colours through PM Robert Abela s brazen intimidation of the members that compose the same inquiry, the party said. It is clear that we have a puppet government and a puppet prime minister which are controlled by the interests of the same mafia state.
The party was reacting to a cryptically-worded government statement issued on Tuesday evening, in which it said that the board of inquiry would have to assume responsibility for its decisions and their consequences, now that it had taken it upon itself to extend the inquiry s deadline and its terms of reference.
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Macbridge was named as a source of funds for his company without his knowledge.
• He set up a Panama company to move his business out of Malta, after hearing that details about a
trust he had set up with BOV had been leaked to the PN.
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other offshore structures in England and Cyprus, as well as bank accounts in the British Virgin Islands.
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• He had nothing to do with the
Vitals hospital deal.
• He had
emailed in his resignation in 2016 as he was seriously ill, but was roped back into government.
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