"France asked to open investigation into Electrogas loan", 5 October 2020.

France’s national financial prosecutor’s office has been asked to open an investigation into whether four French-based banks and an investment fund were complicit with Electrogas in laundering the proceeds of corruption. Sherpa, a French association that fights financial crimes, teamed up with the Daphne Caruana Galizia foundation to file the complaint against BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, Natixis, CIC and Rivage Investment for money-laundering and concealment.

The complaint alleges that the financial institutions gave Electrogas the multi-million-euro loan despite journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia’s revelations about corruption surrounding the power station deal...Electrogas has strongly denied any such corruption, citing an unpublished internal review that it says gives the company the all-clear.

Caruana Galizia was assassinated in October 2017, barely two months before the loan deal with Electrogas was finalised.

Yorgen Fenech, who was an Electrogas director at the time, is accused of being the prime suspect behind the murder...Electrogas partners Siemens recently admitted that they pushed for Fenech’s resignation from the Electrogas board following revelations in November 2018...