Activists call for VGH inquiry and accuse ministers of criminal conspiracy

• Activists demand criminal probe to establish if there was criminal complicity by three ministers in controversial contract to shell company for the running of three public hospitals worth over €1 billion

• Secret agreements signed by VGH investors prior to public calls for the running of the three hospitals 

• ‘Act of modern day piracy’ carried out in ‘complicity’ with Finance Minister Edward Scicluna, Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi and Economy Minister Chris Cardona, activists tell court

Three senior government ministers have been accused by activists of being complicit in a criminal conspiracy to drain the public coffers as part of the controversial Vitals Global Healthcare (VGH) deal worth over €1 billion. 

In a 150-page application demanding an inquiry into the VGH deal, activists from the Civil society NGO Repubblika single out Finance Minister Edward Scicluna, Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi and Economy Minister Chris Cardona as key facilitators in the “coordinated” act of modern day “piracy”.

They question in the application signed by PN MP Jason Azzopardi why the three ministers, who played differing roles in the deal, were so willing to give a “disproportionate”...