Paul Apap Bologna, one of the shareholders of the Electrogas power station, insisted before a parliamentary committee on Wednesday that he did not discuss the power station proposal with Labour before the 2013 general election. Testifying before the Public Accounts Committee, he described how he came up with a proposal for a gas-fired power station in 2006 and first discussed a joint venture with Yorgen Fenech and the Fenech Group in January 2013 when Labour, then in opposition, announced plans for a new energy infrastructure based on gas. He went on to form the local GEM consortium which then attracted Gasol, Siemens and Socar to form Electrogas when a call for expressions of interest in a new power station was issued by the Labour government in 2013, shortly after the general election. Although he had been fronting GEM at the time, Apap Bologna said that at the request of George Fenech, Yorgen Fenech's father, he took a step back and let Yorgen lead because, he was told, he did not have much on his hands at the time and could therefore allocate more time for the project. Apap Bologna strenuously denied that he had handed 10 percent of his shareholding in GEM to Yorgen Fenech.