Her government contract ended last August, but Mrs Konrad Mizzi is still in China with their children

When Mrs Konrad Mizzi packed up and left for her native China with their two young children back in the summer of 2013, only a few months after her husband had become the second most important elected member of the government, we were told that it was because she was the only person who could do a newly created job for the Maltese government: that of Malta Enterprise envoy to China.

But it was obvious to grown-ups with basic life experience and eyes in their head that she had left her husband and gone back to what she considers home, and that the corrupt government of which her husband is a crucial member had found a way to pay for her keep and that of their children in China, making her getaway possible without any scenes, court cases or tantrums about money.

Though Mrs Konrad Mizzi – Sai Liang – was given a contract by Maltese Enterprise, the Minister responsible for that organisation said he knew nothing about it and had nothing to do with it.

When news broke that she was calling herself Malta’s consul in Shanghai, and that she had consular status despite her original contract being that for a Malta Enterprise government envoy, the Foreign Minister said he didn’t know anything about it either.

For three whole years, Malta’s supposed consul and Malta Enterprise envoy in Shanghai had no public contact details or address, making her the only non-contactable investment envoy in history. Hunting her down became a game.

Now those of us who said back in August 2013 that Mrs Konrad Mizzi hadn’t left for China to do a job, but had gone to China because she’d left her husband and her husband had found a way to get the people of Malta to pay her bills so that he wouldn’t have to, have been proved right (once more).

Sai Mizzi Liang’s contract with the government of Malta ended last August and wasn’t renewed – a public relations gesture following the Panama Papers fall-out in which they were both involved. But four months later, she is still in China with Konrad Mizzi’s children and they have no intention of coming back. To quote her estranged husband, with his unfortunate penchant for weird management-speak that outs him as the author of a Department of Information press release which sought to explain the situation, Mrs Mizzi “has transitioned into the private sector”. In China, of course, not in Malta – though he left that bit out.

I think if we examine things closely we will find that she is still latched onto the Maltese teat – and that instead of receiving applications from Chinese people for ‘golden visas’ to the EU via Malta, she is now standing on the other side of the transaction fence and working as a broker for Malta/EU visas, taking commissions on each one. Read more here and here and also here. And if you can stomach it, there’s this too.

Mr and Mrs Konrad Mizzi with Han Bin, the man who runs Leisure Clothing, a Chinese-owned factory in Malta where North Korean slaves and indentured labourers from China and Vietnam work on the production line.