George Farrugia’s “trusted friend”, Ronnie Agius, writes in support of Seif Gaddafi at the height of the Libyan civil war

In July 2011, when Muammar Gaddafi was fighting for his survival and his son Seif was giving defiant interviews to the world’s media, the Tripoli Post carried an interview with the latter.

There are just three comments beneath it, and one of them is from George Farrugia’s “trusted friend”, Ronnie Agius. I have the most unpleasant sensation that if the Public Accounts Committee probes a little further, they will find – somewhere in this sordid mix – the Prisoner of Brussels.

These are the real evil cliques and networks, and not the ones which Franco Debono – now Farrugia’s defence counsel, absolutely no sense of irony there – so facetiously yelled about when he was in parliament.

And this now gives the whole ‘oil scandal’ saga a completely different slant. These apparently ‘white collar’ networks eliminate each other when necessary just as other criminal networks do. The difference is that instead of using hired killers, gunning them down in public or ‘disappearing’ them as we saw here in Malta the year before last with major drug-dealers, they use their connections to deploy means which are overtly legitimate but covertly not, to destroy their rivals or those who stand in their way.

Here’s the comment posted by Ronnie Agius on the Tripoli Post at the height of the Libyan war, when Muammar Gaddafi only had weeks to live.

Name: Ronnie Agius Date: 07/11/2011 12:00:32
Comment:
Mr. Seif al Salem,

I follow well and attentively each time you make press releases either on newspapers or other media. I wish only the best to you brothers the people of Libya, and hope you will soon have the peace you well deserve, this has been an unjust war personally with your father, this was the Western Allies big thank you to your father for keeping stability in your region , for employing hundreds of thiousands foreign workers, for being there when many countries needed your financial and moral assistance. I am from Malta and come from the old guard of the “Dom Mintoff” time, I was and still am a very close personal friend of Dom Mintoff, so I can never forget how close you were to us during the Dom Mintoff times, I recall times when I visited Libya and even was present during meetings with your Father. I have in hand a picture of Dom Mintoff presenting oranges to you, when you were still around 6 years old. ( I am sure it is you, but if not, it is one of your brothers, but it must be you, that I remember.) . May God Bless you all, may peace reign again between you all our brothers. regards, Ronnie Agius, Malta