Nexia BT’s Karl Cini may have committed perjury in the Egrant inquiry over the number of offshore companies he set up and the failure to disclose a package he received from Keith Schembri’s British Virgin Island account, with the Police Commissioner ordered to investigate discrepancies in his testimony.

According to the now published Egrant inquiry, Cini told the inquiry that he only opened four companies in the British Virgin Island. However, investigations by forensic accounts a further seven set up by Cini in the offshore jurisdiction were uncovered, which were:

Colson, Selson, Lester, SPX, Blue Sea, Torbridge, and Berdil.

According to ICIJ database Lester, Colson and Selson are owned by Adrian Hillman (Allied Newspapers/Progress Press), Keith Schembri (the Prime Minister’s chief of staff) and Malcolm Scerri respectively.

Torbridge’s ultimate beneficial owner is Cheng Che of Shanghai Electric Power of the Delimara power station.

All of the companies are concealed by Mossack Fonseca’s fiduciary services company Administrators Inc.

Meanwhile, in his testimony, Cini told the court that he never received a DHL package sent by Mirzella Tunon, of the Panama Paper’s Mossack Fonseca, at the end of February 2017; along with a separate declaration from ATC Administrators Inc.

However, an email uncovered by investigators proved otherwise.

ATC Administrators INC is owned by Schembri’s Colson, and Lester, which is owned by Malcolm Schembri.

Nexia BT has played a central figure in the Egrant inquiry and the Panama Papers scandal having set up the aforementioned Egrant, and the accounts of former Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff and Konrad Mizzi.

The Egrant Inquiry was published earlier this evening by PN Leader Adrian Delia after the constitutional court forced the Attorney General to hand over a copy.