Why didn’t the government of Malta go straight to Partners Healthcare International?

I have read this report.

Nadine Delicata speaks about the positive improvements wrought by Partners Healthcare International. The question Ms Delicata and everyone else – including journalists – should be asking is this: why didn’t the government of Malta sign its contract directly with Partners Healthcare International and cut Ram Tumuluri, and whoever he is fronting for, out of the equation?

Instead, the government of Malta struck a deal with Tumuluri and whoever he represents via that mysterious company in the British Virgin Islands, they incorporated what is literally a start-up company, and then in turn signed a deal with Partners to do the actual work.

Bottom line: the government of Malta could have gone straight to Partners, and cut out the middle-men. It did not, and it follows from this that the real deal it wanted to strike was with those mysterious middlemen. And it went ahead and did so.

As for Albert Fenech, he should know better – and I would have assumed that he did – than to put his head on the block for a clutch of crooks.

Albert Fenech and Nadine Delicata should not be sticking their necks out for this crook.