Hospitals deal: PN asks police commissioner to investigate 37

The Nationalist Party has filed a report demanding the police to investigate 37 individuals and companies in connection to the annulled hospital privatisation deal

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech and PN MPs Adrian Delia, Joe Giglio and Karol Aquilina asked Police Commissioner Angelo Gafà to launch a full-scale investigation.

Their report filed on Monday followed the court’s annulment of the “fraudulent” privatisation in February, after former PN leader Adrian Delia fought a five-year legal battle against the deal.

Judge Francesco Depasquale ruled in February that the hospitals Gozo General, St Luke’s and Karin Grech should be returned to the government within three months.

The PN has asked the police to investigate the following individuals and companies:

Prime Minister Robert Abela, disgraced former prime Minister Joseph Muscat, Health Minister Chris Fearne, his predecessor minister Konrad Mizzi, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana, his predecessor Edward Scicluna, former economy minister Chris Cardona, former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri, bosses and investors of Vitals and Steward – Ram Tumuluri, Armin Ernst, Mark Edward Pawley, Ashok Rattehalli, Aasia Parveen Shaukat, Asad Shaukat Ali, Shaukat Ali Chaudry, Mohammad Shoaib Walajahi, the selection committee members James Camenzuli, Manuel Castagna and Robert Borg, consultant David Galea, Malta Enterprise CEO Mario Galea, permanent secretary Ronald Mizzi, Robert Vella, Peter Mamo and the companies Bluestone Investments Malta Ltd, Pivot Holdings Ltd, Oxley Capital Group, former Malta Industrial Parks Limited now known as INDIS Malta Ltd, former Projects Malta Limited now operating as Malta Strategic Partnership Projects Ltd, Bluestone Special Situations 4 Limited registered in the British Virgin Islands, AGMC Incorporated, and Portpool Investments Ltd also registered in the British Virgin Islands.

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Former PN MP and lawyer Jason Azzopardi commented on Twitter that the 37 have been under a criminal investigation since 2019.

He said that civil society NGO Repubblika had requested and successfully obtained the holding of a magisterial inquiry.