Prime Minister Robert Abela has sent an official letter to Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa calling on him to investigate all the revelations connected to the secret company Macbridge which were published on Monday.
In a story on Monday, the Times of Malta revealed that Macbridge International Development is a company which is owned by Tang Zhaomin, the mother-in-law of negotiator Chen Cheng.
Macbridge was named as one of the two companies set up to pay the equivalent of some €5,000 per day into secret offshore Panama companies which were owned by the OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri and then Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi.
The second company was called 17 Black, which was based in Dubai and owned by businessman and Electrogas shareholder - and the man currently accused of masterminding the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia – Yorgen Fenech.
Cheng Chen was a consultant with a firm called Accenture, and he played a key role in a €320 million deal which saw Chinese state-owned company Shanghai Electric Power buy a third of Enemalta in 2014.
In his letter, the Prime Minister referred to three articles published on Monday by the Times of Malta and another one published by Reuters on the same revelation.
“If all of the contents of these articles are not already being investigated by the police force and does not form part of an inquiry or magisterial inquiry, I am requesting that you ensure that all the allegations mentioned in the said articles are investigated immediately”, Abela wrote.
Abela placed special emphasis on the word “all” – underlining them in the letter.
In a statement sent to the media with the letter, Abela reiterated his faith in the country’s investigative institutions and said that they should continue to work with full independence and without any preference to anyone.