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
Junior Minister Rosianne Cutajar has insisted she always acted correctly , following reports that she brokered a multi-million euro property deal for Yorgen Fenech, pocketing a €46,500 fee in cash in the process.
Writing on Facebook on Sunday, Cutajar said she was convinced she had always acted correctly, legally, ethically and politically and was willing to defend her reputation if needed.
Cutajar was reacting to reports published separately by
The Sunday Times of Malta and
Malta Today which both revealed that the junior minister was involved in brokering a property deal for Fenech, a business tycoon who is now facing murder charges.