Updated | Arnold Cassola requests investigation into Rosianne Cutajar, Edward Zammit Lewis over undeclared income

Updated at 12:54pm with comments by Edward Zammit Lewis

Independent election candidate Arnold Cassola has written to the standards commissioner George Hyzler asking him to investigate Rosianne Cutajar’s property deal involving Yorgen Fenech.

He further requested an investigation into Edward Zammit Lewis’s undeclared earnings.

Cassola noted in his request that Cutajar’s situation is aggravated as the undeclared cash was made as a broker for Yorgen Fenech after he was revealed to be the owner of 17 Black.

“I urge you to investigate these cases urgently because I, and many honest Maltese people, are overwhelmed by the climate of impunity in which numerous politicians act,” he wrote.

Today it was revealed that Rosianne Cutajar, parliamentary secretary for equality, and her political aide Charlie Farrugia ‘it-Tikka’, allegedly received some €100,000 in brokers’ fees for the sale of a €3.1 million Mdina property to Yorgen Fenech.

The promise-of-sale was made out in May 2019 - after it was revealed that Yorgen Fenech was the owner of the controversial 17 Black Dubai company

READ MORE: Yorgen’s €3.1 million Mdina deal, Rosianne Cutajar, and the judge’s husband

Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis also landed in hot water this week after failing to explain how his declared earnings were three times the salary paid to MPs in 2018.

On Cassola's request to the Standards Commissioner, Zammit Lewis said that he will approach the commissioner himself on the story, which he holds is fabricated.

"Tomorrow I will go to Dr George Hyzler's office first thing in the morning to get the whole truth out and give him access to speak to the Commissioner of Taxes and the Clerk of the House of Representatives so that it becomes clear that this is a misleading story," he stated.