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News maltatoday, SUNDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2013 The saga of a Sir Chris Evans contract terminated technical attaché Ivan Camilleri had an "outburst", Cachia Caruana said in an email. Despite the Gonzi administration moving heaven and earth for Camilleri's wife, the Camilleris may not have voted for the Nationalists in the last elections Evans with his Ferrari CONTINUES FROM PAGE 1 In 2011, Evans told the Maltese media that one of his companies, Sultan Scientific, would be working on the establishment of a self-managed, Maltabased private investment fund of approximately €200 million to invest in mid-to-late stage companies that have a strong pipeline of technologies and products which have been developed by management teams with both scientific and commercial credibility. This fund was known as the Global Medi-Science Fund and aimed at attracting foreign investors to Malta. Evans had said, "Discussions with MFSA and the banks are at a very advanced stage, and Sultan Scientific will be launching the Global Medi-Science Fund in the coming weeks. We are confident that we will manage to raise around €150 million by the end of the year, and this is good news for Malta, as in my capacity of chairman of the BioMalta Foundation, I will use my best endeavours to use this fund to get new companies to set up their operations in Malta. In doing so, we will be creating the nexus between academia, industry and the research community, each of which will increase the value-added to the local economy." CONTINUES FROM PAGE 1 Camilleri's husband Ivan – no stranger to the influence of Cachia Caruana – lost no time in making his unhappiness apparent, as attested to in an email by Cachia Caruana to Lawrence Gonzi himself, who received his own angry email from Nicolette Camilleri. "She spoke to me about this, following an outburst from Ivan… I advised her to write to the Public Service Commission, as is her right," Cachia Caruana told Gonzi. As it turned out, Cachia Caruana said he was informed that she had performed "very badly in the interview in terms of answers she gave" and that "her attitude vis-à-vis the interviewing panel (held via video conference) was negative". With the avenue to her technical attaché posting closed, Camilleri still had a fallback position, since she had previously been accepted as a seconded national expert to the European Commission. In spite of the interventions from Gonzi himself, who accepted to devise a special contract to have Nicolette Camilleri remain in Brussels, it seems there was little gratitude from the Camilleri family. This fact alone was revealed on the personal blog of Nationalist apologist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a rant over her argument with Ivan Camilleri, who confided in her that both he and his wife "didn't vote because his wife didn't get the job she wanted". "It is particularly ironic that – because Nicolette Camilleri didn't get the exact job she wanted in Brussels but got another one instead – she and Ivan Camilleri went out of their way to punish the very people who made it possible for them to be in Brussels in the first place, with a nice EU passport, and rewarded instead the very same team of people who busted their guts trying to keep us out of the European Union."