Watch: Schembri, Mizzi advisers Nexia BT sat on power station selection committee

Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi’s financial advisers Nexia BT played a role in selecting who would build and run the new gas-fired power station, documents show. Questions have long been raised about whether the call for expressions of interest to build a new power station was tailored for the Electrogas consortium in a pre-2013 election deal. Both the local businessmen behind the consortium and the government reject any such suggestions. The government last year refused to disclose to Parliament the names of those who sat on the selection committee, citing confidentiality. A freedom of information request by the Times of Malta on behalf of the Daphne Project, however, has revealed that Nexia BT managing partner Brian Tonna sat on the Enemalta selection committee handling the new project, along with three other staff members from the same financial services firm. Nexia BT and its subsidiaries had other roles in the new power station project, which was the Labour government’s selling point for the 2013 election. Nexia BT is the firm that opened the secret Panama companies for the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Keith Schembri, and Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi. The New Zealand...