The police have interrogated members of the Farrugia oil trading family following new evidence about alleged corruption in the purchase of oil by Enemalta.
Mr Farrugia, one of the brothers, has been granted a presidential pardon to reveal all he knows about the oil procurement scandal.
He was sacked from the family company Powerplan in 2010 after his brothers accused him of siphoning off the family’s oil business to his company, Aikon Ltd. However, the brothers were essentially business partners during the crucial years (2004- 2010) when kickbacks were allegedly paid on Enemalta oil contracts.
Investigators are also turning their attention to Island Bunker Oils, the company owned by the former Enemalta chairman Tancred Tabone, and to major cash from local banks.
The last withdrawals of $250,000 and €100,000 took place on January 13.
Full story in The Times.
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