Ex-Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar hit out at Labour-owned portal ONE News after it failed to report that an investigation by tax authorities found that she did not commit any crimes in her involvement in a property deal with Yorgen Fenech.

“When I said that I expected that those who waged a crusade against me would descend into silence, I was not thinking of One News. This should have been good news for the Labour Party. But maybe it was bad news for those who incited against me and used every excuse to remove me from the Labour Party,” she wrote on social media on Sunday.

A Time of Malta report in 2020 found that Cutajar allegedly helped broker a property deal in November 2019 involving Yorgen Fenech, the prime suspect in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

The deal was to buy a house in Mdina for €3.1 million. When Fenech was arrested in November 2019 for the assassination, the deal fell through.

The Times of Malta report revealed that Fenech handed over a total of €40,000 for the deal – €31,000 was given to Charles ‘it-Tikka’ Farrugia, who is Cutajar’s close associate, and €9,000 was given to Cutajar.

Cutajar is alleged to have pocketed a further €46,500 from the same deal, this time from the property’s owner. At the time, Fenech had not yet been charged in connection to the assassination but had already been outed as the owner of 17 Black, the Dubai-based company linked to alleged government corruption.

Cutajar resigned from her position as parliamentary secretary following a report by the Standards Commissioner found she was in breach of ethics, calling for a tax investigation into the deal.

She then resigned from the Labour Party after WhatsApp messages between her and Fenech were leaked earlier this year. She remains in Parliament as an independent MP.

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