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Frank Sammut implicated in another oil kickback scandal
Former Enemalta consultant Frank Sammut involved in another oil-purchasing kickback sandal – caught on tape.
26 January 2013, 12:00am
Karl Stagno-Navarra
Karl Stagno-Navarra
1 min read
Former MOBC chairman and Enemalta consultant Frank Sammut has been implicated in yet another case of kickbacks stemming from oil purchasing agreements related to Enemalta.
Weekly newspaper Illum reports that Sammut was caught on tape encouraging businessmen to "accept the offer" of a politician to hand over half the shares of a company so that they could share profits off oil purchases.
The recordings, which span over 23 tapes, emerged recently as an exhibit in court during a civil case being heard before Judge Anthony Ellul. The recordings were made between 1988 and 1999.
In them, Sammut is heard, along with a contradictor, an entrepreneur, and another man, discussing how profits from the purchasing of Enemalta oil can be distributed among bank accounts in the Channel Islands.
The revelations emerged in the wake of an already on going commissions kick-bank scandal revolving around Enemalta's oil-purchasing agreements, in which Frank Sammut features prominently.
It has also emerged in the media that Sammut was investigated by the Commission Against Corruption in 1993, and that Minister Austin Gatt had been warned in parliament regarding Sammut's potential conflict of interest in 2003.
Read more in today's issue of Illum.
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The case occurreed at the very beginning of the present regime, it is only the tip of the iceberg.
I think we now need a clean sweep.
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DALLI, AUSTIN GATT, AND THE EXCITMENT OF MORE TO COME LET THE PARTY BIGIN !! MARCH WE HOPE SHALL BE FULL OF MORE SURPRISES, WHY NOT INVESTIGATE GONZI ?? OR MAYBE WE CANNOT BECAUSE HE CONTROLS THE POLICE.
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I all ways say, buy Malta Today if you want to know the truth.POWER CORRUPTS.
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Prosit ghalik sur 'bejn il-linji'. Ma tistax minhabba l-partiggjanizmu tieghek, tnizzel lil Malta kollha li kulhadd huwa mahmug! L-maggoranza tal-Maltin jaqilghu il-hobza ta kulljum bl-gharaq ta gbienhom u bl-akbar onesta'! Impossibli li l-politika ma thallikx tara sew u tikkummenta fuq l-maggoranza tal-haddiema u mhux fuq xi tnejn l-hinn u l'hawn rghiba u bla kuxjenza!
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Apparti l-politika, f'dan il-kazi li qed jisemmew fuq dan Frank Sammut. Jigifieri dal bniedem, kellu pozizzjoni bhal dik, kellu professjoni kwazi unika f'Malta...kif ma kien jikkuntenta bid-dhul onest li kellu. Din ir-rghiba kolla! u ma kienetx ta darba bid-dehra..kemm hawn nies li ma jafux jikkuntentaw b'dak li jaqilghu onestament. Jien nahseb li dan il-bniedem kellu xi ossessjoni bhal ma jkunu l-frodisti. Iva, biex xtara cabin cruiser daqshiex, kellu ghalfejn jirrikorri repetutament ghal dawn il-kickbacks? O Mulej, kemm jien kuntent bli ghandi ghax saru bl-gharaq u bl-onesta'. Avolja m'ghandix karozzi lussuzi u cabin cruisers, imma ferhan u malli npoggi rasi fuq l-imhadda, norqod trankwil! Grazzi Mulej!
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Qatt ma kont nobsor li Malta taqa' daqshekk fil-baxx. L-unika speranza li jitla Joseph Muscat. Waqajna wisq fil-hama u difficli tipprova; dejjem rajt tgwerfix immaqatt daqs illum.
X ma jkollniex 5000+ mijun euro dejn!!
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It might be a bit late for me to understand but, "better late than never!!". TODAY with the help of MALTA TODAY I am "begining" to understand what GHALINA U GHALL ULIEDNA really meant!! Today I am in a far better position to understand the differnece between MALTA TAGHNA LKOLL and FUTUR FIS-SOD. Thanks Malta Today. With your fine investigations you managed to put light on why certain politician witheld Malta at ransom for oil. It surprises me that being so sure the PN would rule for another 25 years this politician still decided to call it a day for the coming elections!!
