The Eve Bajada who paid the money into Adrian Delia’s Jersey account is the “Eve” who collected the money from the London prostitutes

Yesterday, this website published a bank transfer advice slip (HSBC) showing clearly and beyond dispute that Eve Bajada – Emanuel Bajada’s wife, who collected the takings from the London flats used in a prostitution racket – paid money into Adrian Delia’s personal account at Barclays International in Jersey.

This posed a problem for Nationalist Party leadership contender Adrian Delia, who had first denied that he had any such bank account and then strenuously denied receiving the takings from prostitution for onward processing. This is because a couple of days ago, Malta Today had published a story based on documents which included evidence from a London trial of prostitution racketeers, operating out of those very addresses, which included a notebook detailing money “collected by Eve”.

The transcript of the notebook, pictured below, is from evidence presented during the trial which followed a police raid in 2003. This notebook was kept by one of the women who controlled the prostitutes in the flats. You will notice that she has noted down an agreement in which she has to “pay Eve £24,000 a month”. That is the £20,000 a month which Eve Bajada deposited into Adrian Delia’s bank account in Jersey, and about which her husband Emanuel Bajada wrote to Dr Delia, through solicitors in London and lawyers in Malta, after he failed to pay it onwards to offshore companies as instructed.

So today, “sources close to Adrian Delia” spoke to Malta Today, saying that the Eve in question was a 20-year-old employee and not Eve Bajada. Those sources are lying.

It was Eve Bajada who collected the takings on behalf of her husband Emanuel, and it was Eve Bajada who paid those takings into Adrian Delia’s Jersey bank account. She is the “Eve” in the notebook kept by the women who controlled the prostitutes, recording their payments made to her.

The “sources close to Adrian Delia” also told Malta Today that the flats were leased to a certain Martin Farrugia, and that the money went into his account. Again, those sources are lying like the man they are close to. Mr Farrugia was just a tiny pawn in the process of layering and hiding that Eucharist Bajada, the actual owner of the flats, used to distance himself from the prostitution racket from which he benefited.

Like Mark Barbara, now Chris Cardona’s driver, who held the title to 52 Greek Street, Soho despite being penniless and indebted, Mr Farrugia was a man troubled by debts, problems and illness, who signed anything that Eucharist Bajada gave him to sign, through his lawyers, on the understanding that Mr Bajada would take care of his wife and small children when he died of the testicular cancer which he was battling at the time.

The letter published by Malta Today, given to the newspaper by “sources close to Adrian Delia”, gives Martin Farrugia’s address in Malta as a small flat in Msida – hardly the proprietor or leaseholder of a portfolio of London flats.

The reality is that Martin Farrugia, who signed everything he was asked to sign by Eucharist Bajada’s lawyers, was betrayed in the end and left in the lurch by Mr Bajada. He ended up sleeping in a car while Eve and Emanuel Bajada took care of his children, and he died destitute.