A comment on the guest post about the shift in the balance of power

The guest post on the shift in the balance of power between Muscat, Schembri, Mizzi and Tonna has attracted this additional comment which came in by email.

Fact, from first hand experience:  Brian Tonna was part of the team from day one, formulating the 15-year road map together with Muscat and Schembri.

My assessment is that Louis Grech was part of the conspiracy from early on.  He is almost certainly the one who identified Konrad Mizzi, who he will have known from birth because he is close to Konrad’s father, Lawrence Mizzi. Mizzi and Grech were both part of the original Air Malta management from back in the 1970s. They remain close friends. When Konrad stepped down from the Labour Party deputy leadership last spring, and returned to his seat after giving his speech to the party delegates at the party headquarters, he stopped first to hug Grech emotionally, like a child hugging a favourite uncle.

The otherwise excellent guest post omitted all mention of Karl Cini, though he knows everything that Tonna knows and the organisation of the secret companies and trusts, as the Mossack Fonseca emails show, was left almost entirely in his hands. He is probably sharper than Tonna though Tonna is the managing partner. Yet Cini is the most vulnerable, and he is clearly the weakest link.

Not only does he not seem to have been in on the act financially, with a proper share of the spoils, but it is possible that he will crack under pressure when there is a change in government.  The other four conspirators probably see him as the one most likely to spill the beans, become a whistle-blower. He was not part of the original plan; he became involved as a result of being a partner at Nexia BT.  

L to R: Brian Tonna, Joseph Muscat and Karl Cini at Nexia BT’s offices in 2013