Muscat corruption update: Nationalist Party sends power station document to Auditor-General

The Nationalist Party has sent to the Auditor-General a proposal it had received, in document form, for a power station in 2009.

The proposal was made to the Nationalist Party, and not to the (Nationalist) government, which is how the party retains the document. The proposal is identical to that which Joseph Muscat and Konrad Mizzi put forward in the last general election campaign, and which is now being built for management by Maltese business interests and the state of Azerbaijan which are shareholders in Electrogas Malta Ltd.

It was The Malta Independent which broke the news, last Sunday, that the Nationalist Party had received an identical proposition in 2009, which was dismissed on the grounds of impracticality, absence of cost-effectiveness and expense.

Clearly, the proposers then took it to Joseph Muscat, who ran with it – for all the wrong reasons, which need not be gone into here. Suffice it to say that those who put in their expressions of interest to the government of Malta after the 2013 general election, for the building of a power station, were used as unwitting beards because the intention all along was to give it to the Electrogas people – Labour Party donors and Azerbaijan (which might also have been a Labour Party donor) – and the expression of interest process was just a mise en scene.