Delia’s case, which he filed almost five years ago, calls for the scrapping of the concession that placed Vitals Global Healthcare, and later Steward Healthcare, in charge of the St Luke’s, Karin Grech, and Gozo hospitals.

The main thrust of his argument is that Vitals had breached several terms of the contract and that the government, therefore, had no right to allow it to transfer the contract to Steward.

In a recent interview with Lovin Malta, Delia said he is confident that justice will be done and that he expects the government to have a full contingency plan in place in the eventuality that the deal is scrapped.

Revealed just yesterday, two Pakistani intermediaries who acted as brokers to help Vitals Global Healthcare enter Malta recently sued their successors, Steward Healthcare Malta, for failing to pay them €2.8 million that had been promised to them.

Lawyers Franco Galea and Jean Pierre Busuttil last month filed a court application on behalf of Mohammed Shoiab Walajahi and Sarwat Shoiab Walajahi, requesting the payment of the missing funds.

They attached as evidence an introducer fee settlement that the Walajahis had signed in March 2015 with Crossrange Holdings Ltd, a now-defunct company that was owned by Canadian-Pakistani businessman Ram Tumuluri. The agreement was certified by the law firm DF Advocates.

This was a reference to the MOU that the Maltese government had signed with Vitals investors in October 2014, six months before it issued a public call for the running of the St Luke’s, Karin Grech, and Gozo hospitals that Vitals ended up winning.

The agreement obliged Crossrange to pay the Walajahis an initial €30,000 within 30 days, and a further €2.8 million within 60 days of its final deal with the government.

However, while they received the initial €30,000 fee, they are still waiting for the €2.8 million almost eight years down the line, despite several promises – including “recently” – that the money will be paid.

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