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17 News maltatoday, SUNDAY, 15 DECEMBER 2013 malta bribery investigation Tancred Tabone: police have not yet found a cash trail of bribes allegedly paid to the former Enemalta chairman George Farrugia TABLE OF CONTRACTS AWARDED UNDER FIVE CHAIRMEN Tancred Tabone William Spiteri Bailey / Louis Giordimaina Alex Tranter 6 TOTSA TENDERS 5 Total 4 Trafigura 3 2 1 2003 2004 Super One between 1999 and 2002. There is also more to be understood about Farrugia's relationship with Trafigura. One of the telling correspondences leaked to MaltaToday is a Yahoo Messenger Chat between Farrguia and Naeem Ahmed of Trafigura, whom Farrugia told the PAC that he had lost contact with him in 2003. The Yahoo chat, which takes place in July 2010, shows that Farrugia was 2005 2006 still in contact with Ahmed. And the conversation contains a telling and perhaps, give-away comment. Ahmed asks Farrugia: "Did the dragon like the diamond?" – a suggestive comment referring to a gift. Later on in the chat, Ahmed demands that Farrugia returns a "50K" paid to him. Farrugia says he can reverse the transaction in two weeks' time, but Ahmed wants it done sooner. So Farrugia asks Ahmed if 2007 2008 2009 he has "a bank account in Switzerland???" so that he sends him a bank draft from a Swiss bank. What transaction did George Farrugia have to reverse to a Trafigura official? "Trafigura could have given different options – prices – for the sale of oil to Enemalta, depending on the time it took for them to be paid in full," a former Enemalta official told MaltaToday. Trafigura 2010 2011 had not won a contract with Enemalta since 2006, but in 2010 it won two fuel tenders. There is a risk that incomplete investigations into the way fuel tenders were worked out and commissions paid, has resulted in a partial explanation of the Enemalta fuel scandal. Even Gonzi's decision to grant Farrugia a presidential pardon to turn State's evidence, now takes 2012 on a new dimension given the fact that the former prime minister knew Farrugia's wife during his time at Mizzi Organisation, where he worked as a lawyer on a special concession during his time as Speaker (back page, pg 56). Police investigations may have to be widened and the PAC's questioning intensified to establish what really happened inside Enemalta.