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READ this inquiry between the lines: Daniel Bog- danovic was not released on police bail in time for a Sunday match because someone demanded special treatment for the Xewkija Tigers midfielder. It was because pressure was brought to bear upon a police inspector after phone-calls from Assistant Commis- sioner Carmelo Magri and a conversation she had with Gozo's superintendent Antonello Grech. The suggestion made to Insp. Edel Mary Camilleri was subtle: should Bogdanovic be kept in the lock-up "longer than necessary" - even though she had agreed with Magistrate Joanne Vella Cuschieri that the foot- baller would be arraigned under arrest on Monday, 31 October, before the 48-hour lapse? By Sunday morning, after those phone calls and the entreaty of Supt. Grech, details of which were not published, Camilleri weighed her options and decid- ed to give Bogdanovic police bail, so that her superi- ors would not think she was being overweening with her power. And the reason Bogdanovic's arrest had elicited interest from AC Magri was because Xewkija coach Jesmond Zammit felt he was able to pick up the phone and ask about police business. He was after all the chief of staff of junior minister Ian Borg. Newspaper post €1.40 maltatoday Festive Food maltatoday YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT BOGDANOVIC INQUIRY today today SUNDAY • 4 DECEMBER 2016 • ISSUE 891 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY Education minister's former canvasser told FTS tenderer to contact Gozo bomb victim Sandro Ciliberti over supply of goods • Police set to inves- tigate link between Edward Caruana and Ciliberti FTS tenderer flagged Bartolo aide in 2015 Scandal of a force wedded to men of influence MATTHEW VELLA Labour 'person of trust' Jesmond Zammit called the most amenable police boss he could find. Because he could do so... 6 SAVIOUR BALZAN EDUCATION Minister Evarist Bartolo was warned in February 2015 of allegations of im- propriety in procurement procedures at the Foundation for Tomorrow's Schools (FTS) in- volving his former canvasser and driver, Ed- ward Caruana. A supplier who had tendered for school fur- niture had complained that FTS procurement officer Edward Caruana – appointed as a per- son of trust by Evarist Bartolo – suggested contacting Sandro Ciliberti, a businessman who supplied school furniture and was based in Gozo. According to the allegation, Ciliberti had boasted that all winners of tenders would have to turn to him because only he had a unique "certification of design" for furniture as speci- fied in the FTS tenders. MaltaToday is informed that Bartolo had fol- lowed up this complaint, asking the FTS chief executive officer Philip Rizzo to meet the com- plainant. Instead, Rizzo asked Joseph Caruana, the permanent secretary at the education minis- try, to meet the complainant. When the latter met Caruana, he was surprised to see Edward Caruana also present at the meeting: only then did it become clear to the complainant that the two were brothers. PAGE 3 Former FTS CEO Philip Rizzo, left, and Education Minister Evarist Bartolo Zammit, Bogdanovic and Magri ALSO WITH MALTATODAY MALTATODAY today MALTATODAY today today MALTATODAY Kicking off the Christmas season with your favourite food mag• FREE malta Food SUNDAY • today BOGDANOVIC INQUIRY today SUNDAY • 4 DECEMBER 2016 • ISSUE 891 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY today • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY today SUNDAY •