Karl Cini of Nexia BT/BT International was one of the three men who carried out the “independent inquiry” into the quality of the hospital concrete

In September 2014, the government commissioned an “independent inquiry” in the quality of the concrete used to build the state general hospital, Mater Dei. The members of the independent inquiry board, constituted by Konrad Mizzi, Minister for Health, were Karl Cini of Nexia BT – who set up the minister’s secret company in Panama and secret trust in New Zealand, and an architect called Joseph Scalpello. The board, which has since concluded its report, was chaired by former judge Philip Sciberras, whose son is the minister’s legal counsel in libel proceedings.

I am in no position to say whether the report was impaired in its conclusions. I am not a concrete expert, and that is not the point I am making here, which is that the inquiry board constituted by the Minister for Health cannot in any way be considered independent, especially in the light of what we have since discovered about his secret financial affairs relationship with Cini.

Karl Cini secretly helped set up the Minister for Health’s secret company in Panama and secret trust in New Zealand, through Nexia BT, in which he is a partner.
When this information was not yet in the public domain (and with no plans for it ever being in the public domain), the Minister for Health appointed Cini to the ‘independent inquiry board’ which he commissioned to examine the issue of concrete used to build the state general hospital.