Yes, somebody is up to something serious, and it’s not Austin Gatt
It looks like both emails really were mucked about with – that copied by The Times from a picture going around on Facebook, and that reproduced in part by Malta Today.
One is addressed to Matthieu and the other to Mattieu, and in both, the recipient’s automated name shows up as Matthieu Rouquie.
But a quick search on the internet reveals that his real name is actually the typically French spelling of Mathieu (Rouquie), and that his email address is [email protected].
This means that the automated name – which is fixed at his end, by the Total IT administrators or by Mr Rouquie himself, would show up with his real, correctly spelled name: Mathieu and not Matthieu.
And when George Farrugia saved the contact, that’s how it would have been saved.
The automated name that shows up on my emails is Daphne Caruana Galizia, not Daphney Caruana Galizia, even though people address me as Daphney, Dafne, Daphnie and so on.
There’s more. Anybody who has ever printed out emails from Outlook knows that when you press ‘print’ it is not just the one email that comes out of the machine, but the entire exchange, even if it is 100 emails long.
Yet these emails are rather curiously ‘stand-alone’ – where is the reply from Mathieu Rouquie? Where are any earlier emails?
And why is there an FW in the subject-line that indicates the email has been forwarded? This is ostensibly an email from George Farrugia to Mathieu Rouquie, so how does the forwarding come in? Did George Farrugia send it first to the wrong address and then forward it to the right one?
This is absolutely ridiculous. Dangerously ridiculous.
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At this point, the forging of the two emails is very evident from the fact that EACH email spells the name of Mathieu wrongly TWICE.
Note that in each email, the saluting line (dear …) shows the name of Mathieu in the wrong version with two “t”s in the same way that it is wrongly written in the address line in the respective email.
Therefore, each version of the email has at least two blunders in this respect.
I believe that both emails of ta’ Times and MaltaToday are not genuine and at best derive from a third source.
This looks like a forgery too:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130210/local/Oil-firm-asked-rogue-trader-about-meeting-with-minister.456931
This is Olivier de Richemont’s Linkedin Profile. He’d be interested to know that he’s been implicated in a news story about bribery
http://tinyurl.com/afnyk4z
I really hope you are right about this since I cannot imagine a world in which A.G is proven to be taking commissions, after thinking so highly of him for the last 20 years.
[Daphne – Even if the emails are real, where does it indicate that Austin Gatt takes commissions? How do you go from a request for a meeting to that?]
I am fully confident that the Police will establish whether these emails have been manipulated (to me they are more of a collage but I have not seen them physically) and that the Swiss bank account will have absolutely no money put in from way back 1970s with the exception of reinvested annual interest.
The sooner the Police pronounce themselves the better for all.
I still cannot believe that, once again, Labour are behind all this.
Let’s hope the truth comes out before election time so ‘il-poplu jkun jaf li dawn ma nbidlux’.
There’s one word I don’t agree with in what you wrote at the end, and it’s the word ‘dangerously’.
Ridiculous is right because the blundering idiot who tried to create some incriminating email is a mediocre fool who pretends and assumes he or she is a professional.
A professional will backtrack a 100 paces and will cover any traces or mistakes. If he was dangerously ridiculous he wouldn’t be traceable.
Dangerous that it’s happening though. Ruthless desperation. We’ve seen all along that professionalism has nothing to do with it, never did. Where’s the famous Bidla? The new violence from MLP alias LP alias Joseph & Co. alias Moviment etc. IS psychological.
Dangerous because it can effect the way a voter decides to place his vote – if this was the intention.
Dangerous because Malta risks being run with such tactics becoming the rule of the day not the exception.
Dangerous because these tactics together with tacit or not so tacit backing of those releasing them by relative supporting structures within the community do not guarantee a safe society for one and all.
Dangerous because some things are difficult to prove and circumstances are not always clear, in which case the targeted victim ends up with a ruined reputation and career.
One statement, one ambiguous comment as to lack of integrity can ruin a person, whether it takes an hour, a day, a month or years to prove this wrong – the damage as intended will have been done. No one deserves this, for whatever reason.
Daphne, I would sincerely like to ask whether it is so difficult to confirm whether (in the advanced technological world of today) those emails were sent for real or not?
All the evidence so far shows that the emails are forgeries.
It should be easy for the police, assuming that an electronic copy still exists. And since the print outs must have come from somewhere if they’re genuine, one assumes (hopes?) they still do.
You are amazing. Better than Sherlock Holmes.
I really admire you.
I sense a rotten, fishy smell here. Lampuki pie it ain’t.
Makku pie, perhaps?
Perhaps, Ciccio.
I hope those Brussels hospitals have lots of spare beds.
Dak għaddielu jew?
Maybe he is waiting until March, to be eligible for a free trip aboard AirMalta to vote in the general elections. The past year or two must have been horrible from his financial point of view.
What impressed me was the fact that Austin Gatt was not his usual self. He was really worried. Let’s face it : who wouldn’t be worried when you are implicated as being the mastermind behind this whole issue?
However, notwithstanding that he was worried, he was VERY VERY convincing in his arguments. And that can only be done when you are 100% innocent.
[Daphne – Obviously he is worried. It doesn’t follow that he is involved. Any NORMAL person with a sense of decency would be worried in that situation. You have to be a Joseph Muscat or a Toni Abela not to be – brazen.]
Labour is relaising that Plan A is crumbling, so it is changing to Plan B.
Issa f’daqqa wahda hergin balla emails u it-Times qed titpaxxa igibhom front page. Issa ma ghadiex tokrob bhal qabel jew bil-bibien tal-hadid ghax jibzghu li jergghu jaharquha.
Ara veru ghodda fil-Partit Laburista.
Dak ghogbu l-habs u rega mar lura hemm.
Problema huh, Gorg, daqqa il-Libja biex iqarar li-Bastjan u daqqa Brussels iqarar lil Ganni.