Former Minister Konrad Mizzi returned to the Public Accounts Committee on Tuesday. During last week’s meeting, he claimed that he had only been an “observer” in meetings that led to the decision to grant a power station contract to the Electrogas consortium. He has repeatedly refused to answer questions, including about his relationship with individuals involved in selecting the Electrogas bid, such as David Galea, Thomas Leonard or Brian Tonna. Watch the committee meeting live below Instead, he said that he was only obliged to respond to questions directly related to the NAO report that the parliamentary committee is probing. The Electrogas deal was the subject of a 500-page report by the National Audit Office which found a number of shortcomings in the selection process for that project and concluded that the due diligence process was “insufficient”, among other things. The Electrogas consortium was handed a contract to build and run a gas-fired power station in Delimara for 18 years in 2013. The deal was being probed by journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was working on a leaked cache of documents when she was assassinated. One of the power station’s shareholders, Yorgen...
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