Watch: ‘I Left Politics Poorer Than When I Started’: Keith Schembri Appears Before Parliamentary PAC
Joseph Muscat’s Former Chief of Staff Keith Schembri is currently facing questioning from the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee about the Electrogas power station project.
Schembri is giving testimony with regard to his knowledge of the €200 million contract awarded to the Electrogas consortium, at the request of opposition Nationalist Party MPs, who are currently chairing the PAC.
Among the things said so far, Schembri has claimed that George Fenech did not want the power station, alleging that “I know this because I used to know him and we had spoken about this”.
He has also pushed back against what he saw as the PAC accusing him of using his power to enrich himself by claiming, “I left politics poorer than when I started”.
During the meeting, Schembri was introduced as one of the men who told Joseph Muscat to run for Labour leader and he then says “and the rest is history.”
Though Schembri was once Joseph Muscat’s Chief of Staff, they have reportedly not been close for some time.
He is now facing ongoing criminal proceedings over several charges of money laundering which he pled not guilty to and has never been in a PAC meeting before this one.
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