![]() and Mark Edward Pawley in respect of Bluestone Special Situations #4 Ltd, a company in the British Virgin Islands. The agreement, a copy of which continues to be denied by the government, also included Ashok Rattehalli in respect of his company AGMC Inc. The Shift has also reported on how Shaukat Ali acted as Muscat’s investment promotion consultant.īy October 2014, the government (acting through Chris Cardona’s ministry) had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Shaukat Ali and a PPP advisor Mohammed Shoaib Walajahi in respect of a Maltese company called Pivot Holdings Ltd. The Shift has already reported on Shaukat Ali’s links to Dalli, to whom he had transferred his shares in the company formally known as ‘John Dalli and Associates Ltd’ during his ill-fated stint as EU Health Commissioner (2009-2011). But we know that there was a great deal of activity behind the scenes.ĭaphne Caruana Galizia had reported that in late 2013 Shaukat Ali Abdul Ghafoor and Sri Ram Tumuluri were already meeting potential subcontractors in Dubai for a deal to take over a chunk of Malta’s healthcare on a PPP basis.Ĭaruana Galizia had additionally reported how, among others, Schembri and an unnamed former politician whom she identified as likely to be Dalli were offering these subcontractors comforts and tips on how to secure the deal. The next we would hear of this PPP idea for healthcare would be March 2015 with Mizzi’s announcement of an RFP. With hindsight, unsurprisingly, some of Dalli’s major recommendations were that Malta should seek to attract medical tourism, that the Gozo General Hospital could be made better use of and Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in healthcare could be a good solution. ![]() Freshly returned from his self-imposed medical exile, conveniently after a change in Police Commissioner, Dalli was engaged by Muscat as a consultant on healthcare reform in the country.īy November 2013, Dalli’s report, ‘Mater Dei: a better social return’ was ready. We can start with John Dalli, a former health minister in Malta, in 2013. ![]() It is worth taking a look back at how this all started and set the current context in perspective. We may disagree on how this state of affairs came about – our informed view is that this is due to a blend of corruption, greed and sheer incompetence – but at least there is wide agreement that we are at a critical juncture. The government, on the other hand, presumably freed of the toxic trio – Joseph Muscat, Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi – appears torn between scrapping the deal altogether (something Prime Minister Robert Abela referred to last Sunday as “populist”) and materially amending the contract terms to appease Steward (something that would potentially open the concession up to legal challenge). The promised investment was never made, Vitals effectively went bankrupt, Steward is now claiming the company was “pressured” to take over the failed concession (a bizarre claim), that they are owed millions and want to be paid more to boot. So why all this fuss now, pushing information we already know as “revelations” while still omitting key questions that remain unanswered? Neither Steward Healthcare, nor the government, was ever forthcoming with answers to questions sent, let alone a stream of stories for weeks all quoting “government sources” or Steward sources. ![]() Spectacularly.īut we’ve known this for a while – The Shift has been investigating and publishing revelations on the hospitals deal for two years. Hundreds of pages to only one or two.If there is one thing everyone agrees with in relation to the Vitals Global Healthcare / Steward Healthcare concession, it is that this has failed. Of these folders is not available and they This is only an inventory of the folders.Īll individuals on whom we have a folder of material. ![]() Each carrier contains approximately 10 liner feet of material.Īt this point, there is no descriptive information of the content of the individual folders. There are four revolving units, subdivided into carriers. The Revolving Files are our largest collection of core research materials. ![]()
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