A former senior gaming authority official and his wife have appeared in court charged with money laundering in connection to his work at the regulator. Jason Farrugia, 34, and his wife, Christine, 26, pleaded not guilty to the charges on Wednesday afternoon. They were jointly charged with money laundering while Farrugia was separately charged with a raft of other alleged offences, including extortion, accepting bribes, fraud exceeding €5,000, misappropriation, trading in influence, disclosing confidential information and computer misuse. Bail was denied. Scant detail was given to the court about the investigations that led to the arrest of Farrugia, former chief technology officer with the regulator, and his wife. Farrugia resigned from the MGA in December last year after he was suspected of leaking sensitive internal information. Sources within the regulator said at the time that he was suspected of having made irregular access to confidential and commercially sensitive information held at the authority. He was suspended from the MGA shortly before his resignation and an internal review decided to dismiss him and refer the matter to the police. He tendered his resignation...