Electrogas director Paul Apap Bologna refused to respond to questions about his offshore company during a parliamentary committee grilling on Wednesday. 
Electrogas shareholder Paul Apap Bologna invoked his right to silence infront of the Public Accounts Committee when confronted over questions on his offshore company Kittiwake and Yorgen Fenech s 17 Black.
During the meeting on Wednesday, Nationalist MP Karol Aquilina asked Apap Bologna whether he owned any foreign companies that were involved in the Electrogas projects, alluding to his secret United Arab Emirates company that is identical to 17 Black.
Aquilina asked whether there had been any agreement between 17 Black and Kittiwake, whereby Kittiwake was being used to funnel payments to a third party.
When Aquilina put forward the first question asking about foreign companies, Apap Bologna s lawyer Gianella Demarco immediately said that he will be invoking his right to silence.
Shameful resolution
At the time when Moneyval was about to vote regarding Malta’s reforms on money laundering and the rule of law and the European Court of Justice was about to also decide a case instituted by Manwel Delia’s Repubblika, filed by PN lawyers Jason Azzopardi, Karol Aquilina and Therese Comodini Cachia, against the judicial appointments in Malta, PN MEPs David Casa and Roberta Metsola, together with EPP general secretary, Simon Busuttil, were pushing hard for a debate and vote in the European parliament on a resolution against Malta proposed by the EPP.
That shameful EPP resolution was passed by over 600 MEPs voting in its favour while just over 40 voting against and 12 abstained, if I remember correctly. The Labour MEPs stood up for Malta and voted against; the Nationalist MEPs voted in favour.
Paul Apap Bologna, one of the shareholders of the Electrogas power station, insisted before a parliamentary committee on Wednesday that he did not discuss the power station proposal with Labour before the 2013 general election.
Testifying before the Public Accounts Committee, he described how he came up with a proposal for a gas-fired power station in 2006 and first discussed a joint venture with Yorgen Fenech and the Fenech Group in January 2013 when Labour, then in opposition, announced plans for a new energy infrastructure based on gas.
He went on to form the local GEM consortium which then attracted Gasol, Siemens and Socar to form Electrogas when a call for expressions of interest in a new power station was issued by the Labour government in 2013, shortly after the general election.
Yorgen Fenech took lead on power station project because he ‘had time on his hands’
Public Accounts Committee hears Electrogas shareholder Paul Apap Bologna testify that Yorgen Fenech’s father wanted his son to lead the project because he had idle time on his hands • Denies discussing energy plan with Labour before 2013 election, confirms meeting Joseph Muscat socially
19 May 2021, 5:42pm
by Kurt Sansone
Yorgen Fenech’s deceased father wanted his son to take the Electrogas project forward because he had “little to do”, the Public Accounts Committee heard.
Electrogas shareholder Paul Apap Bologna testifying in the PAC on Wednesday said that it was George Fenech’s wish that the power station project was run by his son.