PANAMA PAPERS: This is the third (mysterious) company associated with Schembri’s and Mizzi’s

Published: April 11, 2016 at 12:51am

This is the extended company report for Egrant Inc: EGRANT_INC_2421806-1-807956_DatoCapital_en_p

Egrant Inc is the third (mysterious) company associated with Konrad Mizzi’s Hearnville Inc and Keith Schembri’s Tillgate Inc. It has the same incorporation date – July 2013 – and when Karl Cini of Nexia BT (he is Brian Tonna’s partner) emailed Mossack Fonseca to request its creation, he wrote that he would give them the name of the ultimate beneficial owner over Skype.

Nexia BT first wrote to Mossack Fonseca to start the creation of companies in Panama on 14 March 2013, four days after Joseph Muscat took his oath of office as Prime Minister of Malta, and just one day after his cabinet – including Konrad Mizzi – took their oath of office on 13 March. They really did hit the ground running with their road map.

The names you see there as officers and directors of the company are all fronts. The same names are used for many other companies in the Mossack Fonseca Panama-company farm.

The corporate records of Hearnville Inc, Tillgate Inc and Egrant Inc name Bufete MF & Co. as agent. That is the Mossack & Fonseca firm in the USA (the MF stands for Mossack Fonseca). In Neil Chenoweth’s article in the Australian Financial Review today, Nexia BT’s Karl Cini is quoted as having written in an email (part of the Panama Papers leaked documents) that he would “talk to Luis”.

Other documents among the Panama Papers have linked Konrad Mizzi’s name the attorney Luis Quiel.His email address is [email protected] and he is based in Minnesota, USA.

Nexia BT gave Mossack Fonseca the name of the ultimate beneficial owner of this company over Skype - it does not appear in the email documentation in the Panama Papers, but there is an email saying the name would be given over Skype

Nexia BT gave Mossack Fonseca the name of the ultimate beneficial owner of this company over Skype – it does not appear in the email documentation in the Panama Papers, but there is an email saying the name would be given over Skype

This company belongs to Keith Schembri, Prime Minister Muscat's chief of staff

This company belongs to Keith Schembri, Prime Minister Muscat’s chief of staff

This company belongs to Konrad Mizzi, Minister of Energy and Health and the Prime Minister's favourite, who shares his office and for whom he has just changed the Labour Party's rules to make it possible for Mizzi to be made his deputy party leader.

This company belongs to Konrad Mizzi, Minister of Energy and Health and the Prime Minister’s favourite, who shares his office and for whom he has just changed the Labour Party’s rules to make it possible for Mizzi to be made his deputy party leader.