Minister Without Portfolio Konrad Mizzi today refused to give a straight answer when asked if his wife Sai Mizzi was still on the government payroll in China.

According to the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Ministry’s website, Mrs Mizzi is the Consulate General for Malta in Shanghai.

Questioned about this today during a power cut press conference, Dr Mizzi told the press to ask “the relevant ministry”.
Pushed further, Dr Mizzi again referred journalists to “the responsible authorities”.

Konrad Mizzi declined to answer questions about his wife Sai Mizzi Liang's job.Konrad Mizzi declined to answer questions about his wife Sai Mizzi Liang's job.

Questions sent by this paper yesterday to the Foreign Affairs Ministry have yet to be answered.

Last year, during his short-lived election as PL deputy leader, Dr Mizzi had said his wife would be relinquishing her envoy role in China.

“We discussed her role as a government envoy in Asia. We concluded that seeing my role would change, I will no longer be a minister with one portfolio but PL deputy leader with other responsibilities in government.

“I oversee various developments across government, including in the ministry where she works, we decided that Sai will be finishing off her current contract in August [2016],” Dr Mizzi had said, prior to being demoted to Minister Without Portfolio after his name appeared in the Panama Papers data leak. 

Mrs Mizzi had been at the heart of controversy ever since she was appointed as special government envoy to China with a monthly package of €13,000.

 

Sign up to our free newsletters

Get the best updates straight to your inbox:
Please select at least one mailing list.

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By subscribing, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing.