George Farrugia’s brothers should have been prosecuted but were not. Is it because the Police Minister is their lawyer?
Codruta failed to kiss him this morning.
At the Public Accounts Committee hearing this evening, in the ‘oil scandal’ case, Inspector Gafa testified.
Gafa, you might recall, was one of the senior officers investigating John Dalli in the snus corruption scandal, but he was summarily redeployed elsewhere at the same time his boss Police Commissioner Rizzo was removed, as soon as Labour was elected and stopped the investigation into Dalli.
He was also the inspector who worked on the ‘oil scandal’ investigations. He said this evening that when he was informed of his redeployment away from the Economic Crimes Unit, he gave a formal handover of all pending cases to his successor. One of those cases was this one – the business with oil trading.
Gafa said that he made a point of registering a note in the file saying that charges were to be pressed against four of George Farrugia’s brothers: Salvu, Antonio, Gaetano and Raymond. Those charges had been drafted and were in the file, but he had been waiting for documentation from Lombard Bank.
He said they should be prosecuted because they were aware of the bribes their brother was paying on the company’s behalf. The investigators had found several cheques made out to ‘pay cash’ or ‘pay self’, for which the brothers were co-signatories. The bribes were paid in cash.
Twenty months have gone by and George Farrugia’s brothers have not been charged, let alone prosecuted. I suppose the fact that the Police Minister is also their lawyer has nothing to do with it. And isn’t David Farrugia Sacco, son of the sleazy ex judge, member of the Police Board and failed Labour candidate, another of their lawyers?
Maybe the Farrugia brothers have had the same stroke of corrupt good fortune that John Dalli did.
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It also transpired that the brothers’ company, Power Plan, paid Ray Farrugia’s wife for the infamous clocks! The princely sum of Lm500 for both. They also donated a car to Frank Sammut – a Ssangyong.
When I get into trouble I will use a Labour candidate as my lawyer.
How’s this for a misleading headline on MaltaToday:
“Oil trader repeatedly approached Austin Gatt to talk about tenders – inspector”
Then in the body of the story:
“But according to Farrugia, the minister used to refuse to talk about tenders,” Gafa said.
Maybe they ran out of space in the headline.
Does the EU go in in these scandals?
‘Oil trader repeatedly approached Austin Gatt to talk about tenders – inspector’ – MaltaToday
This misleading headline exposes Balzan’s anti-Gatt agenda.
Inspector Gafa stated repeatedly that all approaches made by George Farrugia to speak to Austin Gatt about tenders were rebutted by Gatt.
Clearly this is a continuation of ‘The Great Grudge’ of 2004 when Gatt gave the impression that he was backing Dalli but at the last moment may have dropped him.
There’s a prince inside every frog, except one.
The plot thickens, or should that be ‘the plot gets clearer and clearer’?
Kobba mhabbla sew. Ma tantx issib tarf taghha. Nistennew u naraw. U nistennew irridu ghax il-qrati jimxu bil-mod.
Ghad iridu jitghalmu jimxu l-ewwel qabel ma jibdew jigru.
Issa Owen ghandu hafna altar x’jaghmel.
Speaking of John Dalli, is there a photo of his brother Bastjan on the internet?
I looked for one but I had no luck in finding one.
What does Bastjan Dalli look like?
Unlike the priest, he does not resemble his brother the fake prime minister. Heightwise kolla fl-istess keffa u l-obesita mhix nieqsa fit-tlieta.
Now, I understand why Saviour Balzan, this morning was all over the place on twitter relentlessly lambasting inspector Gafa. I could not understand the rationale for all the tweets and why Saviour Balzan could not control himself. It is clear now as to why. Gafa is one of the perceived enemies of John Dalli.
Separately, Saviour Balzan wants to report the guerilla twitters, who in his opinion, are contrived of you. I am seriously thinking that he is another person with psychological and persecution issues just like John Dalli, Franco Debono and Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando.
After all the fuss the MLP made over one presidential pardon to George Farrugia, they grant unnecessary and unofficial pardons to all four brothers.
Il-vera Taghna Lkoll.
Very sleek new look for your blog. I like the page numbers which makes it easier to navigate though articles, however I am missing a next and previous button.
It’s annoying when you are catching up with articles from say from page 2 and you have to go back to main page, then to the previous page just to read the next post.
It’s true one can use the back button from the browser, but it’s more organic if you can move to the next post from within the page. Other than that, keep up the the good job; you are doing a valuable service for the country. Thank you.
Who was the lawyer of the Farrugia brothers back then?
Malta Today misleads with its headlines, whilst the Times of Malta online does not even mention the inspectors intention and advice for the four brothers to be prosecuted. Wonder why. Hands tied.
And people talk of sustained attacks on the Times of Malta.
This should have been the main story on every newspaper but it is too much to expect on this ‘art helwa’.
Note also that their lawyer only knew about the misappropriation of funds and not of the kickbacks.
Didn’t the Farrugia brothers check where their revenue was coming from? How can you conclude that you are owed x amount without knowing from which transactions?
When will Malta ever be true to itself and admit that the country is a mafia-state (or, for precision’s sake, Camorra state).
What about the Tax Compliance Unit – or is the government scheme intended to cover them?
‘Codruta failed to kiss him this morning’
Yes she did, that’s her.
Mela kemm kienet isbah din.
Nigi msejjah biex nghin kollega fuq kaz serju u difficli. Korruzzjoni fid-Dipartiment tat-Trade, l-ghoti tal-licenzji tal-importazzjoni.
F`anqas minn erba u ghoxrin siegha insolvu il-kaz, nikkonfiskaw eluf kbar ta liri, u ser nibdew niehdu l-istatements. Il-kriminal jinzel gharkubbtejh jibki ma’ saqajn il-kollega tieghi u jghidlu biex jehodlu l-istatement hu.
Il-kollega isaqsih ghaliex, ghax ahna ufficjali tal-pulizija bhal xulxin. Il-kriminal jghid lil kollega tieghi li jekk jinterrogah hu jaghmillu statement, jaghmilulu bil-affidavit.
Il-kollega jghidlu li jien pulizija bhalu. Il-kriminal iwiegeb li jekk il-kollega jehodlu l-istatement hu, jibqalu cans wiehed u jiehdu.
Jekk l-istatement niehdu jien u nqabbadlu siequ tal-ghatba tal-qorti hadd ma johorgu minn hemm.
Il-kollega imur ghand il-kummissarju jaghtih ir-rapport fejn konna wasalna. F’anqas minn erba u ghoxrin sekonda l-kummisarju jibghat ghalija, jghidli li issa l-kollega ma kellux bzonn aktar l-ghajnuna tieghi u li jien kelli immur inkompli fuq xogholi.
Hekk gara, il-kriminal u l-kaz mietu fuq ommhom kif jghid il-Malti u ma gara xejn avolja kien hemm Ministru imdahhal, imsemmi fil-kaz li bla dubju kien korrott.
Anke l-Ministru miet fuq ommu, kif jghid il-Malti.