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SAVIOUR BALZAN MORE emails have surfaced showing how oil trader George Farrugia curried favour with key public officials. The latest emails, exchanged in 2008, show Farru- gia's convenient relationship with another key official at Enemalta. They will continue to pile pres- sure on a decision as to whether to withdraw the presidential par- don awarded to Farrugia. The latest emails show Farrugia receiving key and sensitive infor- mation relating to stock from a senior manager at Enemalta. Emmanuel Mizzi, Principal at the Shipping Unit of the Petro- leum Division at Enemalta would email Farrugia with details of stock known in the trade as White oils. In this way Farrugia was made aware of all the Enemalta stock and how competitors involved in the oil trade and potential com- petitors of oil companies Trafigu- ra and Totsa, both represented by Farrugia, were acting. Farrugia sent the email messag- es he received, on to the Yahoo email account of his wife Cathy. In other emails Mizzi 's familiarity with George Farrugia was under- lined with the use of slang words denoting a close familiarity. "Hi George, Għalik King – Fuel Oil posted. Cheerio." The icing on the cake is a thread of emails which shows Mizzi tell- ing Farrugia: "I wish to share the pleasure for the achievement of my MBA and extend my deepest gratitude to your support." Farrugia replies: "Prosit Man. It was my pleasure", implying that Farrugia could have sponsored or part-sponsored Mizzi 's MBA. Mizzi writes back telling him: "Surely from a sincere friend." WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION WEDNESDAY • 21 January 2015 • issue 399 • published every wednesday and sunday €1.00 Newspaper post Editorial - PAGE 10 CONTINUES ON BACK PAGE EXCLUSIVE New emails show how Farrugia curried favour with more public officials GEORGE FARRUGIA left Malta on Sunday with his lawyer, Siegfried Borg Cole (left). He is expected to return from Rome today PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAY ATTARD Police commissioner could toughen battle against football corruption TIM DIACONO POLICE Commissioner Michael Cassar will look into a proposal by the Malta FA for the setting up of an Anti-Corruption and Transparency Task Force to tackle football corrup- tion. The task force as proposed will include members from the police, the MFA and the Malta Gaming Au- thority. "We will do anything to fight all types of corruption, so I'm all for the MFA's proposal," Cassar told Mal- taToday. "From our side, we already have a squad that investigates all reports of football corruption and match-fixing but we'll consider sug- gestions that will improve our fight against it." An MFA report published earlier this month paints a damning picture of the state of corruption in Maltese football. "Our football is infested by people who grade the game's sporting spirit at the lowest grade, if any," MFA In- tegrity Officer Franz Tabone wrote. "Some club officials are blind when they come across money and will dive into any abyss for it. "Some of the people in the game just snigger at us, saying that we are tackling the impossible, while they carry on manipulating football matches. They may still be getting away with it, but we will certainly not be relenting." CONTINUES PAGE 3 Michael Cassar