Konrad Mizzi

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Konrad Mizzi (2012)

Konrad Mizzi (born November 4, 1977 in Paola ) is a Maltese politician . He has been the Minister for Tourism of Malta since 2017 . From 2013 to 2017 he was previously Minister for Energy and Clean Water. He is a member of the Malta Labor Party . On November 26, 2019, he resigned from his ministerial office.

Life

Mizzi holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Nottingham . Before taking up political office, he worked for Maltese and British companies. Among other things, he was partner and managing director of the energy sector at the consulting company Pcubed , and manager at Deloitte and British Telecom .

The Maltese journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia accused Mizzi in February 2016 of opening offshore accounts in Panama and trusts in New Zealand. When the Panama Papers were published two months later , Mizzi lost the party's chairmanship.

On November 26, 2019, Mizzi resigned as Minister of Tourism. He is suspected of being involved in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia .

Two weeks after his resignation, Mizzi received a consulting contract from the head of the Maltese tourism authority, Johann Buttigieg, endowed with a net amount of 6,700 euros per month plus a luxury company car with chauffeur. On January 27, 2020, the new Maltese government nominated Mizzi as head of Malta's parliamentary delegation to the OSCE . After public protests against these events, Prime Minister Robert Abela withdrew the nomination the following day and promised a legal review of the consultancy contract,

Cabinets

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.parlament.mt/mizzi-konrad
  2. ^ Carsten Luther, AFP, dpa: Malta: Minister of Tourism resigns, Minister of Economics resigns . In: The time . November 26, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 26, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Oliver Meiler: Maltese blogger killed by car bomb. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 16, 2017, accessed on October 17, 2017 .
  4. ↑ https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/government-backpedaling-on-konrad-mizzi.766720
personal data
SURNAME Mizzi, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Maltese politician, Minister for Energy and Clean Water
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Paola