Frank Sammut could bring the house down

Former MOBC chairman and Enemalta consultant Frank Sammut has been implicated in yet another case of kickbacks this time in relation to the construction of the Delimara power plant in 1998.

Sunday newspaper Illum reports that Sammut was appointed on the Enemalta board and personal advisor for former PN minister Ninu Zammit in the wake of the 1987 election.

Sammut who is currently facing charges of corruption and money laundering, together with other persons is at the centre of a civil court case, over his alleged involvement in a series of commissions which he shared with others in connection to contracts awarded for the construction of the Delimara power plant in 1998.

The revelations emerged following revelations on the 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