Activists call on police to investigate ‘fresh revelations’ into 17 Black

Activist group #occupyjustice yesterday lodged a formal report calling on the police to investigate Yorgen Fenech, Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri following fresh revelations into 17 Black last week.

The reports say that Yorgen Fenech, CEO of the Tumas group – which in 2013 was awarded the right to build a €450 million gas power station on the island – is the owner of 17 Black, a Dubai company with an account at Noor Bank, also in Dubai.

In view of the damning revelations last week, Maltese citizens expected resignations on the spot. There were none, the group said. Neither was there any police investigation.

The group called on the Malta Police Force to do its job is and make sure that the law is upheld.

17 Black was listed as the ‘Main Clients’ and ‘Possible Payers/Senders’ of Tillgate and Hearnville, the offshore Panamanian companies owned by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s chief of staff, Keith Schembri, and Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi, leaked emails obtained by German paper Süddeutsche Zeitung, and published by the Daphne Project show. In reaction to the news story, Schembri said that 17 Black had never become a client of his business group. Mizzi had also previously claimed that there is no connection, direct or otherwise, between him, his company or trust, and any entity called 17 Black.