Arnold Cassola has written to the Chair of the Corruption Commission, Judge Lawrence Quintano, asking him to investigate two gifts given by Yorgen fenech - a man charged in connection to the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia - to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.

The first donation, Cassola said, was a €20,000 watch in 2014. The second was three wine bottles worth €5,800 in February 2019, "two years after Fenech had allegedly commissioned the assassination of the journalist and eight months after the Prime Minister knew that Fenech was a suspect."

"Due to the gravity of these revelations, which do not just include bribery but also assassination and threats to democracy, I ask you to examine the case as expediently as possible," Cassola said.