Malta’s police have been ordered to present an email hotel booking linked to PL MP Rosianne Cutajar and Yorgen Fenech’s alleged relationship in the libel proceedings against Mark Camilleri. 

Camilleri asked for the email to be exhibited as he says it will help prove his claim that the pair were romantically involved. Camilleri was also asked to submit a separate request for police to present chats between Fenech and Camilleri showing their relationship.

The author has also asked for communication between Fenech and Diane Izzo which references the affair. 

On 28th October 2021, Cutajar sued Camilleri for libel after he claimed in his book A Rent Seeker’s Paradise that she had an affair with murder suspect Yorgen Fenech to advance herself politically and that the murder suspect gave her “corrupt money” on the pretence that she helped him broker a property deal.

A day later, Camilleri offered Cutajar a “trade” – he would delete all his posts about her, including an NFT he had minted of her libel announcement if she quits politics for good.

Camilleri attached to this warning a conversation between Fenech and Izzo about an impassioned speech Cutajar gave in Parliament during a debate on 17 Black, Fenech’s Dubai-based company linked to government corruption.

Lovin Malta had already reported on this chat a few months earlier.

Police are pursuing a criminal harassment case against Camilleri.

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