Electrogas deal must be scrapped - Daphne Foundation
Renewed calls for the scrapping of the deal follow reports that Electrogas director Paul Apap Bologna owned an offshore company similar to Yorgen Fenech s 17 Black
9 May 2021, 5:31pm
by Nicole Meilak
The Daphne Foundation is is continuing calls for government to scrap the Electrogas deal altogether, following revelations that one of its shareholders had an offshore company akin to Yorgen Fenech s 17 Black.
Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family had written to Siemens AG asking the company to sue for the Electrogas contracts to be rescinded, on the basis that they were procured by corruption. Daphne paid with her life to reveal the corruption behind the deals.
The late renowned author Frans Sammut did not take up an offer from former prime minister Joseph Muscat to contribute to a blog intended to put Daphne Caruana Galizia in a bad light, his son said on Monday.
“It went against his personal identity,” Mark Sammut told the public inquiry into the journalist s murder.
He recalled a conversation during which his father had casually commented about Muscat’s request.
“I clearly recall that time when we were having a father and son chat at the kitchen table and at the time, it did not strike me,” said Sammut.
It was only years later, following media reports about Muscat’s testimony at the public inquiry, that reality “hit” him.
Electrogas director linked to Canadian company receiving first cannabis licence
Joseph Muscat’s advisor sits on company board.
2 January 2021
The first licence issued by the government for the production of medical cannabis in Malta has been given to a company drawn to the island by Paul Apap Bologna, the main promoter of the scandalous Electrogas deal.
The Shift is informed that Apap Bologna’s pharmaceutical business has already made a killing out of this deal with Canadian firm Aphria Inc. Yet he has stepped down from the board of directors of the Malta registered company that will be using the cannabis licence, Nuuvera Malta Ltd.
Former EU Commissioner John Dalli had passed on a pitch about an LNG power station project, similar to the one eventually undertaken by Electrogas, to former prime minister Lawrence Gonzi in October 2008.
A letter obtained by
Times of Malta shows Dalli, who at the time served as minister for social policy, had told Gonzi he could speak to eventual Electrogas investor Paul Apap Bologna for further details about the proposed project.
A former official from the PN administration told
Times of Malta that Enemalta had undertaken some preliminary analysis about the proposal but had not taken it any further.
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It is the duty of the police to start ascertaining who is telling the truth and who is lying in the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry and start arraigning people for perjury, independent candidate Arnold Cassola said.
He said in a statement that the inquiry has clearly shown that witnesses are lying.
Giving examples, he said that while former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat had said he decided on holding an early election in April 2017, after Caruana Galizia’s article on Egrant, his former chief of staff Keith Schembri said he knew about an early election in March 2017, before the article was published.