Former Electrogas director Paul Apap Bologna on Wednesday denied bribing anybody in connection with the power station contract. Asked by Labour whip Glenn Beddingfield whether he had ever bribed anyone in connection with the project, Apap Bologna said: “I have never paid anybody anything in my life in connection with this project.” He was testifying before the Public Accounts Committee which is investigating a 2018 National Audit Office (NAO) report into the Electrogas deal. The report had flagged “multiple similarities” in the presentation about the project circulated by Apap Bologna, and the eventual power station project undertaken by the Labour government in 2013. However, Apap Bologna said there were several differences between what he had proposed and what the new government had wanted. One of the differences was that the regasification unit was on the vessel, not on land. He said the company he was dealing with - International Power - wanted to install a 400-megawatt plant in Malta so that energy could be sold to Italy because of a shortage of power there. He added he had presented the same paper on the restructuring of energy generation in Malta in around 2006 and had...