PN Provides Anti-Corruption Commission With Email To Yorgen Fenech Over Marsa Junction Project
PN MP and Justice spokesperson Karol Aquilina has presented the Permanent Anti-Corruption Commission with an email sent by Turkish businessman Robert Yildirim to Yorgen Fenech regarding the Marsa junction project.
The email was sent to Fenech from Yildirim on 22nd January 2019, ten months before Fenech’s arrest for the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Yildirim had stepped in to take over the Marsa junction project after the original tender winner, Turkish contractor Ayhanlar, ran into financial trouble.
According to Times of Malta, data on Fenech’s phone – which is in the hands of the police – suggests he had acted as a middleman between Ayhanlar and the government against a promise of €2 million in success fees.
An alleged email from Yildirim to Fenech was later published by the anonymous Twitter user BugM.
“I asked you to meet me but you take an action. It is very wrong. We can be in the front pages of newspapers in Malta. Apparently you might like it,” Yildirim said.
“What will you tell the court? Bribing someone but no payment. Behave yourself and keep your anger under control,” the email read.
The investigations by the Permanent Anti-Corruption commission regarding the Marsa flyover started last Friday after they received a letter from Aquilina.
“This contract would have seen Yorgen Fenech earn over €2 million from the company that won the tender to constrict the Marsa flyovers,” he said. “Half of this was meant to go to [Fenech’s company] New Energy Supply Limited and the other half to [another company owned by Fenech] Wings Investments, which is registered in the UAE.”
The PN urged anyone with further information to pass it on to the Anti-Corruption Commission.
Meanwhile, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office is also investigating the matter seeing as the flyover project had involved EU funds.
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