Government to pay €55m a year to secret British Virgin Islands company to run state hospitals

The government will be paying €55 million a year to the British Virgin Islands company with concealed ownership, fronted by Indian-Canadian Sri Ram Tumuluri, to run the state hospitals. The figure is revealed in a report in The Sunday Times this morning.

The Sunday Times, however, fails to make the essential point that the company which won the government contract is registered in the British Virgin Islands under concealed ownership, and that we do not know to whom those €55 million a year will be paid.

At least we now know for certain why Godfrey Farrugia was unceremoniously turfed out of his position as Health Minister and replaced without warning by the corrupt Konrad Mizzi, who was Energy Minister already at the time.

And because it was the Prime Minister who made that decision, the obvious question to ask is why he would have made it. The answer, to my mind, is obvious too.