Nexia BT partner Brian Tonna would not say who indicated to him to include Macbridge and 17 Black as target clients for the Panama companies he set up for Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri.
Tonna was testifying in parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that is probing a National Audit Office report on the Electrogas power station contract.
Tonna excluded it was Mizzi who suggested Macbridge and 17 Black as target companies and when it was suggested by Opposition members on the PAC whether it was Schembri, he refused to answer, stating he had a sub-judice case with him.
Journalistic investigations have revealed that Macbridge is owned by a relative of Cheng Chen, a Chinese national who brokered the part-sale of Enemalta shares to Shanghai Electric Power, and 17 Black is owned by Daphne Caruana Galizia murder suspect Yorgen Fenech.
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