Maltese government to pay Vitals Global Healthcare $55 million a year for 30 years

Though the government of Malta resisted, for months, pressure to publish its contract with Vitals Global Healthcare, and finally did so only after Tippexing out the amount it would pay to the company every year, another party that has become embroiled in the scheme has been boasting about its coup to the industry media back home in Boston – which means that, unknown to the press and Opposition politicians in Malta, the figure has in fact been public since last August.

And of course, this begs the rather obvious question as to why the government of Malta – for which read Joseph Muscat, Konrad Mizzi, Keith Schembri and the prime minister’s consultant on hospital management, John Dalli – did not go direct to Partners Healthcare International, instead of to a penniless fixer running away from his debts in Canada and to a Briton with no track record in Britain who flies below the radar and operates a fund management company out of Singapore.

Go on, Maltese government – answer that one. Why didn’t you go direct to Partners Healthcare International, instead of going to a couple of sleazy brokers who then had to recruit Partners Healthcare to do all the work?

The Maltese government will pay Vitals Global Healthcare $55 million a year for 30 years – obviously with increments as the years and decades go by. Read this article in the Boston Business Journal.