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In the meantime, a third source of income from Muscat's government for Yorgen's Tu- mas associates was the rental of a private aircraft. In fact, in the period March 2013-May 2016 Joseph Muscat spent nearly €1.2 million on private jet trips, uti- lizing two companies, one of which, Euro Jet, belongs to the Tumas Group. Yorgen's official visits to Cas- tille were practically now over. He only met with Lyndsey Gam- bin on 24 March 2017 for just un- der an hour and a half. The sub- ject of this meeting is unknown. However, unofficial meetings with Castille personnel were still to happen. Yorgen Fenech got to know Charlene Bianco Farrugia, who was the personal assistant of Keith Schembri. In May 2018, Fenech travelled to Las Vegas with Bianco Farrugia. Yorgen's WhatsApp messages seem to indicate that there were other meetings between the two. Yorgen Fenech also became acquainted with the Hon. Ro- sianne Cutajar, whose office as Commissioner for the Simplifi- cation and Reduction of Bureau- cracy was also based in Castille. In 2018 Cutajar is alleged to have acted as an estate broker for Yorgen Fenech. Whatsapp messages on Yor- gen's mobile phone seem to in- dicate further connections be- tween the two. While Yorgen was having these informal meetings with Castille personnel, he was still keeping contact with Joseph Muscat and family. On 3 October 2017 Yorgen Fenech stated that he received a request to help the foundation of the Prime Minis- ter's wife, Marigold Foundation, and he therefore asked his em- ployees to keep this in mind for the following year. On 8 February 2018, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was the guest of honour at a party held at Level 22 in Portomaso belonging to Tumas Group – Yorgen Fenech's family compa- ny – to celebrate the successful refinancing, through a govern- ment guarantee, of the Electro- gas power station project. In the meantime, in the Jan- uary 2017-January 2019 peri- od, Muscat spent another half a million euros on private jet trips, utilizing two companies, one of which, Euro Jet, belongs to the Tumas Group. In Febru- ary 2019 Yorgen Fenech was one of Joseph Muscat's guests at his "Ma taghmlu xejn" birthday par- ty held at the Prime Minister's Girgenti residence, and he gifted Muscat fine Petrus wine worth thousands of euros. The Prime Minister, Keith Schembri and Yorgen Fenech continued to regularly exchange WhatsApp texts of a friendly nature. They definitely talked about wine and food; we are not sure if they talked about women. Strangely enough, it seems they never discussed a usually pop- ular topic: football. Whatever else they discussed can only be ascertained when the contents of the WhatsApp messages are made public. But the most serious Castille connections linked to Yorgen Fenech concern his middleman/ henchman, Melvin Theuma. The middleman in Daphne's assassination met Keith Schem- bri in Castille. The latter fixed Yorgen's man with a job. Then the person who materially gave Theuma the job was Sandro Craus, another Castille person of trust. And the middleman be- tween the middleman and the actual alleged material assassins was none other than Kenneth Camilleri, another person of trust working at Castille with Joseph Muscat, Kenneth Camill- eri. Camilleri is a close friend and a colleague of another ex-Castille person of trust, Neville Gafà, who used to write some quite colourful posts about Daphne Caruana Galizia on his Face- book. The question that comes nat- urally is: "Is it not strange that at least ten persons working in Castille during Joseph Muscat's stint as Prime Minister have had connections of varying type with Yorgen Fenech and/or his cro- nies"? 13 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 3 JANUARY 2021 OPINION Is it not strange that at least ten persons working in Castille during Joseph Muscat's stint as Prime Minister have had connections of varying type with Yorgen Fenech and/or his cronies