The Prime Minister lied when he said he would publish all contracts by the end of 2016
Back in April, when parliament gave a confidence vote in Konrad Mizzi, the Prime Minister stood up and said: “By the end of this year, we will publish those major contracts which we have signed, to show that we have nothing to fear from transparency.” On Labour Day a few days later, he said the same thing when addressing a mass meeting of his supporters.
But he hasn’t published any of those contracts, except for a heavily blacked-out version of a contract with Vitals Global Healthcare, a start-up company whose ownership is concealed by nominees in the British Virgin Islands.
It has not published its contracts with Henley & Partners, Electrogas Malta Ltd, the Jordanian contractor Hani Hasan Naji Al Salah and his Maltese-registered company Sadeen Education Investment Ltd, and the contracts pertaining to its various deals with the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan and with Shanghai Electric Power.