It was shame that the present government sold the brand new (BWSC) power station to Shanghai Electric, despite the huge savings it was yielding in power generation. But it was even more disgraceful that Enemalta was now actually paying good money in order to continue using it, Opposition leader Simon Busuttil said this morning.
And the government had refused to publish the sale agreement or give details about how much it was paying to rent it back, he added.
Speaking in a Radio 101 interview, Dr Busuttil said all this had to be seen against the background that the deals were negotiated by minister Konrad Mizzi, who had set up secret companies in Panama and declared that income would come from 'brokerage'. This was the same minister who had promised an audit of his affairs, but this had not come about.
Dr Mizzi had held his negotiations with a Chinese official who also set up a secret Panama company, using the same intermediary company as used by Dr Mizzi.
So was anyone wrong to suspect corruption?
It was ironic that Dr Mizzi had turned up in the Gvern li jisma discussion session, but he refused to reply to questions about Panama. He did not to listen and reply.
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