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We're sending you on holiday... Every week! Newspaper post YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT SUNDAY • 25 JANUARY 2015 • ISSUE 794 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday €1.20 Virtù Ferries tickets up for grabs every week with MaltaToday's new photography competition • PG 16 Sant showed Farrugia draft law before passing it on to minister SAVIOUR BALZAN MALTATODAY today reveals damn- ing emails by Godwin Sant, formerly a director at energy regulator MRA, which were sent or copied to oil trad- er George Farrugia, divulging sensi- tive information such as the minutes of an internal Malta Resources Au- thority meeting and a draft law. The emails show how the pardoned oil trader used Sant to facilitate the closure of contracts with Enemalta. Sant, a former MRA director who has now been suspended from th en- ergy ministry, where he worked as a consultant, is on police bail after be- ing interrogated on two occasions for 48 hours by the police. The 45-year- old bachelor, from Naxx- ar, was well known in the indus- try but the content of t h e emails he exchanged with George Farrugia have not come as a complete surprise to many in the industry. The emails show the pervasive involvement of Farrugia, who had several business interests in the fuel trade, including as a main supplier of fuel pump technology. Former Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi has admitted in the Public Accounts Committee that he had known Farrugia's wife Cathy, when he had previously claimed he did not know who George Farrugia was. Cathy Farrugia would issue in- voices on behalf of her husband in the name of Aikon Ltd, Farrugia's secret company, suspected of having siphoned off commissions on the sale of oil from Trafigura and Totsa from family firm Powerplan, run by Farru- gia's brother. Cathy Farrugia served as a secre- tary in Gonzi's time at the Mizzi Or- ganisation. Email threads belonging to Cathy Farrugia further prove that the oil trader's wife and her husband were not unknown to the former prime minister. OIL SCANDAL EMAILS MRA MOLE KEPT FARRUGIA IN THE LOOP, WIFE SENT GONZI FAMILY PHOTOS Thanks to his MRA mole, George Farrugia had access to draft laws on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which affected his business interests in fuel pump technology PHOTOGRAPH BY RAY ATTARD FULL STORY • PAGES 12-13 George Farrugia SUNDAY • malta SIMON BUSUTTIL INTERVIEWED PGS 13-14