Konrad Mizzi had nothing to do with Sai Mizzi Liang’s appointment because he heard about it from her when they discussed it as a family matter.

Sai Mizzi Liang isn’t saying anything and nobody is asking her anything, so we don’t know anything from her, either.

Joseph Muscat says he had nothing to with the job because he was in China when Sai Mizzi Liang’s contract was negotiated.

Chris Cardona, the minister responsible for Malta Enterprise, didn’t know about the appointment because he had nothing to do with it, but he’s sure that everything was done correctly.

Malta Enterprise’s board of directors didn’t know about the appointment until it had happened.

Mario Vella, chairman and CEO of Malta Enterprise, says he didn’t make the appointment himself and he was in China with Muscat when Muscat wasn’t negotiating the contract because he was in China.

None of these people have heard of video conferencing.

Shiv Nair, or one of his various aliases, engaged by Malta Enterprise as a consultant might have been in China too when the contract was being negotiated, but we don’t know because nobody told us where he was at the time so he might have been in Malta.

It certainly suits his purpose to have Mrs energy minister based in China.

Yet are we asking the most important question: What’s really in it for Joseph Muscat & Co?

On the best of days, I refuse to believe that any politician is a bona fide bonus paterfamilias doing what he or she does out of some outdated notion of patriotism. Oh no! I go by the definition in the film the ‘Hunt for Red October’: “I am a politician which means I am a thief and a liar and when I’m not kissing babies, I’m stealing their lollipops”.

Now kick up the sediment in already murky waters by bringing in shady characters such as Shiv Nair, the MLP old guard and several secretive and backhanded (and probably pre-electoral) agreements such as the China MOU, with many more yet to come, and I am pretty sure that this will go way beyond repayment for the simple bankrolling of the PL.

There is way too much to be gained here for nobody to be pocketing anything.

The students’ stipends and all other topics fade to nothing when compared to the enormity of this story.

They should be harping on about it each and every day continuously without stopping.

In September 2013, Ms. Sai Mizzi Liang, wife of Malta’s energy minister, has been given an employment as “Special Envoy (” equivalent to “Ambassador,” they said) by Dr. Joseph Muscat, the Prime Minister of the DPRM.

In July 2013, Dr. Muscat has also employed Mr. Nair as an Energy Consultant.

In substance, this means that Ms. Mizzi Liang and Mr. Nair are related by employment to the same person, pursuing the same goals and objectives, same interests.

We have been told by the Clowns in Castille (the office of the Prime Minister of the DPRM) that Ms. Mizzi Liang will be working in the Far East, seeking to attract business to Malta. That region includes Australasia.

This website has now revealed how Mr. Shiv Nair is permanently debarred by the World Bank for FRAUD AND CORRUPTION.

But if Ms. Mizzi Liang has a such a working association with Mr. Nair via the same employer, which reputable company in any part of the world is going to do any business with Ms. Mizzi Liang, knowing the connections with Mr. Nair?

Rather than being an Ambassador for business to Malta, Ms. Mizzi Liang is more likely to be a liability to Malta because any person or company seeking to do business with Malta via her and Mr. Nair will have their name hanged out on the World Bank blacklist for everyone to see. Which person of repute is going to risk that?

Wow, how much did they say we are paying for this disservice to our country and to potentially serious foreign corporations?

And did they say that she was the BEST QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB?

Are those Clowns in Castille nuts, or are they nuts?

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/doing-business-abroad-ethical-dilemmas/3491574

It’s very hard to segment in your own life, or in the life of an organisation, behaviour which is routinely engaged in, and just pretend it is for special occasions, without it seeping back into the culture of the organisation and actually becoming part of what you really are.

And if you run a company which says to the world at large that it believes in honesty and integrity yet you secretly engage in bribery, then you in a sense betrayed the things that you stand for and give good grounds for creating a climate of cynicism.

The World Bank does not police all transactions everywhere in the world. It concerns itself solely with projects that involve World Bank finance. That means it will only blacklist companies and individuals who violate its guidelines on procurement on projects where World Bank-finance is involved.

Nair’s permanent debarment from World Bank-financed projects extends to any organisation, company or other entity in which he has a controlling interest. The material effect is those organisations, companies or entities will not have access to World Bank finance or be able to participate in any project financed in full or in part by the World Bank.

Enemalta is not involved in any World Bank-financed projects, so it will not be scrutinised by the World Bank nor will it appear on the World Bank’s black list.

The same applies to any individuals or companies that attempt to do business with, through or around Enemalta, that involves fraud, corruption or dubious commission payments of any sort. Since the action does not involve World Bank finance, the World Bank does not scrutinise that action.

That doesn’t mean that Malta is safe. Reliance on someone who is blacklisted by the World Bank and reliance on finance from dubious sources puts Malta firmly back in the pariah camp.

Assuming the situation in Malta does escalate to the point of raising World Bank eyebrows, who’d get blacklisted?

It would seem that on the basis of the above Enemalta could get blacklisted through its association with Nair.