Frank Sammut implicated in another oil kickback scandal
Former Enemalta consultant Frank Sammut involved in another oil-purchasing kickback sandal – caught on tape.
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.