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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 1 FEBRUARY 2015 10 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The emails indicate a level of famil- iarity between Farrugia and Mizzi. Two invitations are made to Mizzi to attend a party organised by Total, the parent company for Totsa, in Paris. And the familiarity is manifest in the way Mizzi addressed George af- fectionately, with the appellation 'Hawn Ginger…'. But a more intriguing email in- volves the specifications for the blending of a fuel consignment, the specifications being shared by Farru- gia with Trafigura officials. Various emails, dated years apart, suggest a trail of communication on the details of what the calculated blends of the procured oils should read, according to specifications advised by Saybolt Laboratories, a monitoring laboratory that was com- missioned by Enemalta. In the email, also copied to Mizzi, Trafigura tells George Farrugia to "please note that Saybolt will test the HFT once discharge is completed and product has settled. Kindly in- form same to Enemalta." The communication indicates the degree of familiarity between civil servants whose job was to ensure that fuel procurements had the right specifications, and oil traders that were being informed from the inside, on fuel stock levels. An arraignment of civil servants who, like former MRA director and energy ministry consultant Godwin Sant, were clearly serving George Farrugia's business interests in the lubricants industry, is bound to be detrimental to the oil trader's presi- dential pardon. Originally the pardon was granted to him on the advice of Prime Min- ister Lawrence Gonzi on condition that he tells all that he knew about corruption in the supply of oil to En- emalta. But now Farrugia has been faced with the new email revelations, showing that he withheld vital in- formation from both police investi- gators as well as MPs in the public accounts committee. It is especially unclear how the initial police investigation depended solely on confrontations between George Farrugia and Frank Sammut, a former chief executive of the En- emalta subsidiary MOBC (Mediter- ranean Oil Bunkering Corporation), who had accepted a kickback from Trafigura into a Gibraltar-based ac- count registered in his name. Sammut, later a consultant un- der Enemalta chairman Tancred Tabone, was said to have brokered a series of kickbacks through George Farrugia; and after leaving Enemalta, set up Island Bunker Oils with him and Tabone as silent partners, and Francis Portelli and Anthony Cassar as shareholders. All four men face charges of bribery following Farru- gia's statements to the police. Instead, Farrugia's testimony News Emails show familiarity between civil Saviour Balzan The information of stocks passed on by Leli Mizzi to George Farrugia informing the oil trader on stocks of other competitors, note the competitors AOT, Fuel Energy, Nordic Storage, Litasco and Saras